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A Trinity Rule in Social and Political 

Economy. The Creative Element 

of Mankind, the Basis of 

All Wealth 




BY 

ALBERT C. ALBERTSON 



ECONOMIC PUBLISHING CO. 
1451 Broadway, New York 



COPYRIGHT 1912 By Albert C. AlberUon 



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CONTENTS -. A^ 



PART 1-CHAPTER I.-Life Beyond the Grave- 
Electronic Universe— The Nature of an Electron- 
Creation of Matter— Man— Henri Bergson. 

CHAPTER II— Artificial Life- Life— Electronic Struc- 
ture — Trinity Principle. 

CHAPTER III -Electronic Invasion- First Cell- Life's 
Start on Elarth — Development of Human Soul- 
Methods of Electrons — Pure Food — Isolation of Dif- 
ferent Classes of Electrons — Dominant Class of 
Electrons — Construction of Thought by Electrons — 
Herbert Spencer — Descartes — Thought-Design 

CHAPTER IV— The Ether Light, Undulatory and 
Corpuscular Theory — Spectrum — Speed of Elec- 
trons — Radium. 

CHAPTER V— Immortality— Dominant Chord of Life- 
Promise of Christ — Transfiguration— Constitutional 
Electron— Experimental Station. 

CHAPTER VI— Summary- Remarks. 

PART II— CHAPTER I-Conscious Immortality -Em- 
ancipation of All Humanity— Child Labor — Civic 
Rights of Women— Social Evils — Salvation— Real 
Source of Wealth — Capital and Labor— The Cre. 
ative, Inventive Principles— God and Religion in 
Economic Strife — Invention, New Society— Trinity 
System. 

CHAPTER II — Socialism— Rearrangement of Classes. 

CHAPTER III - Invention. 

CHAPTER IV— Science and Invention. 

CHAPTER V— Attempts at Great Reforms— Relation 
of Science to Invention — Organization of Invention 
— Co-operation of Invention, Capital and Labor. 

CHAPTER VI— Description of Organization— Some 
Startling Figures — A Continuation of the Process 
and Methods of Electrons m Jthe Material World. 

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AUTHOR'S NOTE. 

The present few pages may be said, perhaps, to 
contain the essence of a vast accumulation of material, 
gathered in the course of years. But, being fully 
aware of his imperfections and inexperience as a writer, 
it is distinctly with a feeling of reluctancy that the 
author finally ventures to offer this little volume to 
the public. 

He also feels, however, that the esteemed reader 
will exercise leniency when and wherever it may be 
obviously needed; for the theme itself is great, the 
greatest of all. In it the heart of man has throbbed for 
ages; in it the pulse of all humanity beats fast in 
deep anticipation to-day. After this life, what shall 
we know? 

The material consists of numerous notes, etc., with 
accounts of scientific experiment investigations in 
the various branches of science, religion and philos- 
ophy, social economy, etc. and it will be readily 
understood that in a space sa limited, only little at- 
tention could be given to details. 

The "trinity principle" observed to be fundament- 
ally involved, not only in the creative methods of the 
invisible electrons, which clears the way straight to 
conscious immortality, but also in all the economic af- 
fairs of mankind, showing a strong connecting chain 
of indisputable facts between the visible and the in- 
visible world, is dealt with, in large outlines, in Part 
II. At first, because of brevity, it may impress the 
reader as a proposition, perhaps more suggestive than 
operative; but on second reflection, it is believed, 
the earnest mind will admit that from the underlying 



truth, there is no escape; that a great economic factor 
has as such been sadly neglected; that for the good 
of the whole world it should be promply tested, and 
if found practical, receive full recognition. TTiere is 
outHned an organization which should deeply interest 
all classes of society. Concerning the references made 
to Christ, His great promise of transfiguration and His 
wonderful words; concerning the experimental station, 
the results alluded to in connection therewith, will 
prove a subject of vast interest to many. 




CHAPTER I. 

Towering above all other questions, as do the snow- 
clad mountain peaks above the clouds, stands forth the 
one eternal question of the ages, is there a life beyond 
the grave? 

Religion has answered the question by way of faith. 

Philosophy by way of reason. 

But we believe it has been left for religion, philos- 
ophy and modern science combined to answer by way 
of proof — so far as proof can possibly be obtained. 

We are, therefore, obliged to delve a trifle into that 
which may to many at first seem tedious and useless, 
perhaps ridiculous, but which we shall try, nevertheless, 
to show must be, and is, at the bottom of all things, and 
then in a measure, follow up si&p by step the construc- 
tion of the immortal human soul. We must go beyond 
the particle of matter, beyond the molecule, even for 
the moment pass by the atom, and start with that 
which is proven to exist in the world of the deep yet 
in which we actually live — in the world of electrons. 

In order to dimly convey to the human mind even 
the remotest conception of an idea as to the size of an 
electron, many comparisons have been made. Thus 
it has been stated that while an atom, for example, 
is so small that millions of them are contained in so 
tiny a body as a grain of sand, such an atom, never- 
theless, contains hundreds, nay thousands, of electrons. 
Investigators of scientific standing have not hesitated to 
announce that more than thirteen bilHons of electrons, 
side by side, would be required to form a line only 
one inch in length, etc. 



In the light of such startling figures and assertions, 
a person may well be permitted to ask, how can one 
know that an electron exists at all? 

But here stands modern, dignified science and de- 
clares it does exist. Master mathematicians have 
demonstrated beyond a doubt that the atom can no 
longer be considered the basic unit of matter, and that 
the discovery of radium and the study of radio-activity 
in general have revealed the truth and fixed forever the 
electron as the ultimate basis not only of matter but of 
the entire universe. And to know, instead of 
merely believing, that the electron does exist, is of the 
greatest importance to the world. 

What is an electron? 

Of what does it consist? 

Whence did it come? 

What is its origin? 

Is it active? 

What are its functions, its methods, its destiny? 

These and many other questions concerning the real 
nature of the electron have been asked again and 
again, but the answers have not come; so here the 
humble writer submits a few suggestions and some of 
his strongest convictions. 

In this connection, we will try, for the moment, to 
free our minds first of all from the usual terms of ''mat- 
ter," "force," etc., and all the other names and ex- 
pressions that imply the same thing, and which may 
sound more or less important but explain in reality 
little. 

Sink yourself, therefore, if you can, friendly reader, 
into the infinite littleness of the electron and realize in 
it the basis of all things in the universe; realize in it 



the minutest part of the omnipresent, omnipotent wis- 
dom in which all creation is eternally rooted, for an 
electron is everlasting, had no beginning, can have no 
end. In its inscrutible littleness, it becomes almost as 
incomprehensible as infinite space. It can never be in- 
jured, cannot be touched; by no method imaginable 
could it ever perish. In duration, omnipresence, in 
power and wisdom, it is absolutely indestructible. 

Beyond the realm of the primeval electron, 
there are no other existences. Hence, strange as it 
may sound, there can be no such a medium as the 
supposed ether for the electrons in which to float and 
vibrate; the phenomena of light, as we shall see later 
on, does not necessarily justify its existence. And the 
undulatory theory of light will probably sooner or 
later be, in a measure, found faulty, and must there- 
fore be abandoned, at least to an extent. 

The eternal majesty of the electronic universe pre- 
vails, of necessity, by reason of endless collectiveness, 
most intense association and perfect methods of co- 
operation. 

A single electron is to be considered only as a cos- 
mic unit of potentiality, a unit that is responsive to, and 
in complete harmony with, the absolutely infinite. 

The primeval electron consists, therefore, of 
neither matter nor force, ordinarily speaking, but has 
existence by virtue of all the qualities attributed to life 
and Deity: consciousness, desire, intelligence, wisdom, 
etc. 

It is divine quality divinely convertible into quantity 
— matter. 

Singly, the electron is, therefore, the alpha of all 
things. Collectively, in all-absorbing co-operation. 



they constitute the omega and crystallization of all 
things. 

Before a particle of matter was created, the infinite 
electronic universe lived. To create matter was 
the first function in time. Matter was created by 
electrons forming themselves into atoms, the latter 
into molecules, altogether by intelligent co-operative 
methods, and thus both nebula and solid substance 
were evolved from out of the boundless electronic uni- 
verse. 

As nebula gradually contracted, solid matter ap- 
f)eared and is constantly being formed. 

Ancient and modem philosophy have attributed 
great importance to the fact that geometry is traceable 
in inorganic matter. 

But when it is considered that the most rudimentary 
movement of electrons, in the nature of things, must be 
geometrical in character; and when it is remembered 
that fundamental electronic effort was to create inor- 
ganic matter, it follows that geometry must indeed be 
clearly traceable in matter. Could it be otherwise? 

The construction of matter was chiefly for a pur- 
pose widely different from what is usually assumed to 
be the case. 

It is generally believed that material worlds, such 
as our planet and others, were made by a generous 
Creator for His creatures to live in, and that were it 
not for physical life, there could be no legitimate pur- 
pose for their existence. 

Man, however, was not always what he is now. 
Nor will he remain in his present form. Nothing in 
the universe, physical or spiritual, is exempt from per- 
petual changes. This process we also call evolution. 



There will, consequently, come a time when the hu- 
man type of life will look vastly different from its pres- 
ent form. 

Henri Bergson, in his great work "Creative Evolu- 
tion," fittingly emphasizes this truth when he declares: 
**The universe endures. The more we study the na- 
ture of time, the more we shall comprehend that dur- 
ation means invention, the creation of forms, the con- 
tinual elaboration of the absolutely new." 

What the great and apparently mysterious object 
is of these continual changes, and what actually causes 
them, are things in which we are deeply concerned. 
And in order that we may fathom their meaning, we 
shall have to abandon some old views, and adopt a 
few new ones. 

As matter was created for an additional purpose to 
that of serving as abodes for physical life, the other 
purpose must be shown. 

The specific speed of electrons must always have 
been the same. 

Before matter existed, there was a desire throughout 
the electronic world for higher organization, for individ- 
ualism on a higher plane where would be involved in 
closest association, the activity of billions of electrons 
in one entity. The state of organization which did 
exist in space still prevails and is limited to the rudi- 
mentary geometric movements of electrons, as already 
remarked. To facilitate electronic organization, re- 
sistance to the specific speed of the electron became 
necessary, and hence the formation of atoms. The 
atom, being a much larger and heavier body than the 
electron, has a far lesser specific speed, and the atomic 
world could offer, therefore, the requisite resistance to 
electronic motion. 



Resistance could be established in no other way 
than by differentiation in the specific speeds of elec- 
trons and atoms, for nothing in the universe can be 
conceived as being in a state of absolute immobility. 

Atoms are the cosmic building materials. Every- 
where they are brought into position forming molecules 
for constructive purposes and are held there by elec- 
trons, which form a living cement, until at some time 
or other, they again depart in some form of energy. 

The atom itself comprises a number of electrons 
holding themselves in a sort of voluntary bondage. It 
is being marshalled in any direction for any given pur- 
pose by the free electrons which operate as the true 
building masters of the universe. 

In great aggregations, atoms and molecules appear 
as worlds or planets. A planet's momentum in space, 
tremendous when compared with mundane standards, 
is so slow compared with the original speeds of elec- 
trons and atoms that to all intent and purpose it is 
immobile, and every desirable degree of resistance may 
thus be obtained. 

Though only a rudimentary state of organization in 
the electronic world exist, yet that invisible, in- 
tangible and apparently blank form of being, the 
author recognizes as the infinite, unorganized but liv- 
ing source of all things. 

Plainly a great trinity principle in all creation un- 
folds itself, to which we shall later on return, as well 
as to the working methods of the invisible designers, 
and we shall understand the reason why there is 
certainly before us a state of conscious immortality. 

The writer has already asserted that the undulatory 
theory of light will be found faulty, or rather inade- 

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quate, for, doubtless, there is yet to be discovered a 
new principle which will be found identical in char- 
acter, dynamics and methods of radiation, irrespective 
of substance and source. 

While the Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta rays, 
etc., emanating from radium have been scientifically 
studied, their respective velocities fixed, and are found 
to consist of travelling particles actually projected from 
the radio-active substance, light itself will probably 
prove a similar, though vastly modified, mode of radia- 
tion, to a degree based upon that same principle, and 
at the same time upon wave motion. 

The specific speed of light having been fixed — at 
least its mean speed — there remains an explanation to 
be advanced for the writer's proposition that in some 
one of the innumerable ray manifestations, luminous 
or invisible, known or yet unknown, we have in truth 
the primeval electron, and that all the others, including 
those in the entire spectrum, constitute a scale of what 
might properly be called combination electrons, that is, 
electrons consisting of more than one in each, and that 
the greater this combination be, the heavier the electron, 
and the slower its speed; that from the ultra-violet to- 
ward the in-fra-red region of the spectrum, they are 
mathematically increasing in weight, while decreasing 
in speed. 

According to the undulatory theory, the spectrum 
phenomena is the result simply of waves in the ether, 
the ultra-violet ray for example, consisting of so or so 
many more millions of waves per second than the 
neighboring ray toward the other end of the spectrum, 
etc. 



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CHAPTER II. 

When science, of late years, has succeeded in pro- 
ducing what is referred to as artificial life, we 
shall here call attention to one fundamental fact of vital 
importance in this respect, namely, that it is now and 
always impossible to create artificial life. There is no 
such a thing. Life is, was, and will be the same for- 
ever, and although so-called inanimate substance is 
observed to possess amoeboid movements, it is not life 
in the same degree the latter manifests itself in nature. 
Such substances behave according to number, and pos- 
sibly class, of electrons present within all matter 
as residuary agents left there on duty since the 
atoms were cemented together by electrons into con- 
crete existence, and are moved by electronic effort to- 
wards obtaining form for their own organization pur- 
poses. To a given extent all matter is therefore alive, 
and absolute inanimate substance does not exist. 
If the substance be not properly composed, chemically, 
however, these movements will remain amoeboid, that 
is, unable to develop into form; if properly composed, 
physical life will follow, provided the stimuli re- 
quired for success be permitted to act upon the sub- 
stance; this stimuli must be in the form of light, heat, 
etc., which, of course, means life electrons, and let us 
not forget that without such stimuli, there would 
indeed be no evolution of life; and, to be sure of this 
fact, it may be safely stated that even the most favor- 
ably prepared substance will in darkness, cold, etc., 
remain lifeless and its few weak residuary electrons will 
soon appear inactive. Some sort of ray, electrons, in 

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some manner must invade the substance to bring forth 
life. 

This is what has actually been accomplished, but 
should not be termed artifical life. What the 
chemists and biologists have thus succeeded in doing 
has been to arrange properly the substances required 
for electronic invasion, occupation and organization. 
Matter, it w^ill be seen, is secondary, in a way, as it is 
the product of original life, the latter not a product of 
matter. 

When man cannot explain the true nature of force 
or phenomena he declares them to act according to 
"fixed" or natural law, etc., but what is the cause of 
such a law, he does not venture to explain. 

Certain it is that in any case there must be a law- 
making agency active before a law can be established. 
Thus society's laws are made by man, and natural 
laws are made by nature — that is, by that which is un- 
derlying all things — electrons. 

When there is greater force in the steam of a hun- 
dred than in a fifty pound pressure, it is because the 
steam or water particles are being driven farther apart 
by the greater number of electrons involved in the in- 
vasion. 

When the zinc plate in an electric battery is gradu- 
ally **eaten" away while its * 'latent heat" is 
being liberated in the form of electricity, some of it 
as a loss in the form of heat called internal resistance, 
it will give off just as many electrons as were contained 
in the zinc, that is, as were active in combining the 
zinc atoms together, minus those required to form the 
new combination of the zinc atoms with the oxygen of 
the electrolyte into a zinc oxide, etc. Electrons thus pres- 
ent in everything tangible, active or "dead," must stand 

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for all the terms of power, energy, pressure, vitality, 
electricity, magnetism, light, heat, etc., and can be lib- 
erated in one form or other, and are ready to act in any 
desired capacity, according to conditions and demand. 
Viewed from this standpoint, the various confusing 
terms, become more comprehensible, being reduced to 
a common base proposition. 

There is, consequently, no such a thing as a "law 
of matter." Matter will behave exactly as the residu- 
ary and invading electrons dictate, by virtue of num- 
bers involved, and by kind or size. 

The fact that isolated particles of certain substances 
have been observed to possess spontaneous movements 
resembling life is, therefore, nothing but an at- 
tempt on the part of the electrons present to or- 
ganize into physical form, but, in the absence of other 
chemicals, proportionately necessary, they fail to ac- 
complish their intention. 

In the natural production of life, all chemical ele- 
ments required are proportionately present and al- 
ready, in a measure, under organization by proper 
number and kind of electrons already there, and 
so on from generation to generation; the requisite num- 
ber of electrons of the right class are conveyed in con- 
junction with the chemical combinations necessary at 
the inception of life, and the embryo **grows" simply 
because the reinforcing influx of electrons gather the 
materials necessary for their purpose. The purpose, 
however, it must be repeated, is not merely to obtain a 
fully developed material body, the latter being co- 
incidental, for it should be remembered that a process 
with an aim diametrically opposite takes place. The 
electrons cannot organize themselves without the use of 

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matter, for, free in space, they are under too high a 
rate of speed, while through denser medium they move 
at a lower rate, and can work. Substance is. there- 
fore, being employed gradually as required to give 
outline, form and design to the electronic structure that 
is creating itself during the period of a physical life's 
evolution and duration. 

If five hundred billions of electrons, let us say, have 
thus by degree worked themselves into the organization 
desired, there is little or no more need of materials, and 
the process of death must then follow, which means 
that now the electronic structure is modelled, and can 
actually exist without all the chemical elements that 
had been useful, the latter are then going back into 
the earth's materials but the electronic being, the soul, 
goes into a world where death is not. This being is 
the real man transfigured into a transfigured world 
ready for greater electronic development. Like a new 
invention which is gradually becoming part of the whole 
world's industry, so the new electronic being is now 
becoming part of the organized electronic universe, of 
God, and has its new functions to perform. 

The electron, as stated, is neither force nor matter, 
in the ordinary sense of the words, force and matter 
being in reality identical; for in one form, electrons 
have grouped into atoms and the latter so arranged by 
free electrons as to form substance; in another form, 
force, that is, free electrons which, in turn, organize 
themselves by means of using their own kind, those in 
bondage, matter. 

Before entering upon a brief description of the 
methods employed by unorganized electrons toward 
organization, it would seem both timely and proper 

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first to point to a few conspicuous facts apparent in 
these methods and the ceaseless efforts of the invisible 
world. 

In passing through matter, portions of the inexhaust- 
ible, unorganized cosmic being become organized into 
individual existences, though never wholly separated 
from the great origin; in fact, no more detached than 
are the millions of electric motors, lamps, and con- 
trivances, distributed about in a great city, from the 
great pressure in the electric power house. 

In completing the organization work in matter, there 
results the organized electronic structure which is as 
immortal as the great unorganized source whence it 
came. 

This is the trinity principle referred to: 

1 . The unorganized state of the living universe. 

2. The organized, individualized state of the uni- 
verse. 

3. The necessary interposition of matter between 
the two. 

Is this identical with the great trinity taught by 
Christ? 

Well, it is not within the province of these few 
pages to dwell or elaborate upon this wonderfully broad 
principle, but merely to convey a hint. 

**Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make 
ye free." 

The writer is fully convinced that the Son of man 
could have informed the world to a greater extent con- 
cerning the broader meaning of it all. But considering 
the fact that but few of His contemporaries could fol- 
low Him, He decided to personify everything in large 
outlines. Few could read or write, and what He 

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taught was sufficient. While He refrained from men- 
tioning atoms, molecules, etc.. He repeatedly referred 
to light — electrons. There seems to be many other 
biblical sayings, that strongly point to a larger under- 
standing which is to come. In Luke, 8:17, for ex- 
ample: '*For nothing is secret that shall not be made 
manifest; neither anything hid that shall not be known 
and come abroad." According to Isaiah, also, there is 
no question as to the existence of infinite hfe before mat- 
ter was formed, for in order to recognize day, globes 
must revolve, and in Chapt. 43:13 he states: **Yea, 
before the day was I am he; and there is none that can 
deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall 
let it?" 



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CHAPTER III. 

When the planet we call the earth was geologically 
fitted for life — with regard to temperature, atmosphere, 
etc., the individualization of Hfe, the electronic in- 
vasion, at once commenced. And here we may prop)- 
erly call attention to the one error, of late so com- 
monly made, when layman and learned are heard dis- 
cussing the origin of life and referring to the very first 
organic cell on earth as the beginning of all life, etc. 

Such a thing as the first single cell could not 
very well have existed, because one-half of the planet, 
being constantly exposed to the influence of the sun, 
must, of necessity, have presented all over its surface 
the same fit conditions, here and there, for electronic 
organization. Consequently, there was a first mo- 
ment rather when this happened, but at that 
moment or brief period more billions of the original 
cells sprang into being everywhere than all the mathe- 
maticians of ages could calculate, for, as will be 
readily seen, the globe must always have been thus 
surrounded by life ready to hold its entrance into mat- 
ter whenever the same should be found properly ar- 
ranged or prepared to receive it. Previous to this com- 
plete electronic invasion, there was nothing but at- 
tempts in this direction which, no doubt appeared as 
imitation life, that is, amoeboid movements in so called 
inanimate matter, precisely as are observed to-day in the 
scientist's laboratory, although, these movements were 
constantly instrumental in bringing about more thorough 
chemical combinations of matter for the purpose, name- 
ly, complete arrangement of the elements for life's 
start upon earth. 

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The protoplasm of the organic cell is under circula- 
tion, and its chemical substances are being deposited 
by electrons proportionately as required, and when 
finished, the influx of electrons now established in mat- 
ter continues unceasingly, projecting their activity to 
exterior surroundings and thus new or adjacent cells 
appear. In the meantime, the incoming electrons are 
constantly, through resistance of the cell-matter, being 
given new directions, different from that in their free 
state. They are also undergoing new experiences, and 
learn at once that united effort must be established. 
Their respective speeds have been reduced, and they 
work under the form of heat or temperature, the process 
of fermentation now having been inaugurated. 

What becomes of the electrons liberated from "dy- 
ing" cells cannot well be discussed here; suffice, there- 
fore, that after having seen service in even the simplest 
organic cells, they are, by way of experience and in- 
creased power in their minute co-operative colonies, al- 
ready fitted for higher service, and as one specie of or- 
ganism is absorbed by another as food, they are thus 
conveyed into the higher types of physical life until 
the form of man is reached. 

Hence, we shall not dwell upon the methods 
and intricacies involved in their ascent through the 
lower forms of life, but at once proceed to a brief con- 
sideration of their activity and specific functions in the 
development of the human being. 

It will be seen that, the very constitution of man 
being altogether electronic, that is, real man con- 
sists of nothing else but electrons, it is also evident that 
what is the great underlying aim is to obtain the most 
favorable, the highest perfection as to structural or- 

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ganization, to establish a perfect circuit, as it were, 
which in itself will consist of a rather isolated great 
number of electrons working in harmony toward the 
same end. Here a most perfect principle of co-opera- 
tion is indeed manifested. 

When the human body is in a state of so called ex- 
haustion for lack of nourishment, the meaning is that 
a fresh supply of electrons, as well as materials for the 
process of metabolism, are needed. When after nour- 
ishment we talk of increased vitality, energy, etc., the 
meaning is that the supply or reinforcement has taken 
place. 

But this shows only one channel through which 
electrons enter into the circuit. The food assimilated 
impart the electrons that were resident in it. 
The liquid or fluid elements absorbed by the body im- 
part, likewise, their contents of electrons, besides of 
their other well known functions in connection with the 
process of assimilation, etc. This is another channel 
through which they enter. 

When we breath air into the lungs, the gaseous 
elements, through the chemical actions involved in the 
oxidation processes, give off their electronic charge, 
which is a third manner of invasion into electronic man, 
and is more important that the other two. 

It is plain that the purer all nourishments are, the 
better the result for the purpose. There is then less 
waste substance to be disposed of and the organs of 
the system less overworked. Waste substance means 
simply materials whose electrons are aliens, or too 
widely different in size, habits, movements, etc., to fit 
for the higher organization, and return, therefore, to 

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lower organic service and circulation where they are 
more in accord with the classes there working. 

As civilization progresses, governments are becom- 
ing more and more interested in rooting out from the 
food industries all kinds of adulterations, pure food 
laws are enacted, etc., which in itself is truly nature's 
silent demand, and is really part of the great cosmic 
scheme of creation. 

There is. however, a fourth channel through 
which the eternal electrons enter into the combined in- 
dividualization process of themselves; it is in the form 
of light. Light-electrons exist in a free state, that is, 
wherever rays of any kind, weak or intense, luminous 
or invisible, are present, and enter the system from 
all directions. But certain it is that they, like solids, 
liquid and air, are also polluted, so to speak, 
or hampered by alien electrons less fitted or not wanted 
at all in the Hfe of a given individual, and become thus 
a great hindrance to higher development. But such 
aliens may be of dominant importance in other sys- 
tems. For the electrons of the entire universe are 
forever endeavoring to separate themselves into their 
respective classes. The prism is a simple device for 
the separation of a very few classes. A human body 
is a far more effective apparatus for this purpose. 
Many more classes are constantly separating themselves 
in even the simplest organisms, though not luminous, 
than in the best of prisms. The latter is the simplest 
of means, for this effect, and can retain none; there 
are simply observed a few in various colors, as they 
pass symetrically through ; the human body is the best, 
and the reason they are not seen there in distinct colors 
is because they largely there remain to become part 
of the growing organization. 

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Individuals differ greatly as to taste with regard to 
nourishment because at the bottom of life there is a 
dominant class of electrons fundamentally active in 
each individual, precisely as there is a dominant chord 
in music and a dominant element in everything. The 
foundation of a building is of dominant importance to 
the whole structure. The more of the dominant elec- 
trons present in the food absorbed, the more it is rel- 
ished, the easier digested, etc., and the greater are 
both physical and spiritual results. 

It is generally admitted that the brain guides the 
body; so it does. But it is obvious also that the 
body is the apparatus in which the electrons are un- 
dergoing a preparatory process for action in the brain 
cells. In the body is combined systematically all the 
channels through which electronic nourishment for the 
brain as well as for the body is introduced, that is, 
whatever electronic reinforcement is required for the 
evolution of the human soul is first marshalled into 
order in the body. 

** Thoughts are things." This phrase expresses 
really a great truth, although no one tells us what sort 
of **things*' they are. We hear much about the mind, 
imagination, consciousness, subconsciousness, will, 
desire, memory, in short all **the faculties.'* Yet no 
one tells us of their true nature and origin. 

In one of his very last essays, however, Herbert 
Spencer seems to have had in mind something in this 
direction, could he only have seen his way clear 
to let the * 'specialized energy" live on, and in this re- 
spect we beg to differ with him, as we shall presently 
see. 

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'*And the consciousness itself," asks Spencer, **what is 
it during the time that it continues? And what be- 
comes of it when it ends? We can only infer that it 
is a specialized and individualized form of that in- 
finite and eternal energy which transcends both our 
knowledge and our imagination; and that at death its 
elements lapse into the infinite and eternal energy 
whence they were derived." 

All of which does not teach us much. We must 
realize that all of the above mentioned so-called facul- 
ties are simply various phases and expressions of one 
real life, and try to show why this is so. 

The brain is indeed the ever important part of our 
physical body; in it thoughts are **born" by reason 
of which we actually live in this world, and by reason 
of which, as we shall see, a place may be obtained 
in the world to come. 

TTie great philosopher, Descartes, was telling the 
world, in five words, one im.perishable truth when he 
stated: **I think, therefore I live." 

Before the cradle and after the grave, electrons are 
active mainly, first in the body, then in and through the 
brain cells. In childhood, they grope about feebly in 
smaller numbers, unacquainted, as it were, in the new 
workshop, then, by degree as they become accustomed 
to the new environments, and the child grows older, 
real thoughts are generating themselves, that is, electrons 
begin to so arrange themselves as to form lines, curves, 
circles, triangles, drawings, pictures of art, invention, 
etc. 

When Pythagoras first constructed his famous theo- 
rem, for example, there is but one way to account for 
how it was done. We say that he "thought" it all 

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out. Very well, so he did. But it was not a product 
generated by the physical elements of his body or brain. 
It was something that utilized his brain cells for their 
own sake. In other words, the electrons, in order to 
construct such a geometrical proposition must do some- 
diing. They have no hands or fingers with which to 
draw or work, so, much like a regiment of soldiers, 
each member of which knows his place, duty, there- 
fore can form lines, squares, etc., they begin to group 
themselves, side by side, into lines, curves, etc., and, as 
they make **ends" meet, they have made a design of 
some sort from which they do not divert, unless it be 
for additional elaboration. Pythagoras could not, 
without previous knowledge have accomplished this. 
As his brain cells were so composed as to make them 
fit for mathematical design, he knew about points, lines 
and triangles before. To build a square upon the 
hypothenuse and then on the other lines, compare them 
and find a rule, was a matter of additional maneuver- 
ing and experiment on the part of the electrons. Once 
the theorem was properly grouped, electronically, it 
demanded expression. In the subjective world the 
work was done, and it was now to be projected into 
the objective world for the benefit of others and for 
instructive purposes. Consisting of electrons in every 
minute detail, and the same being in intimate co- 
operation with all residuary electrons throughout the 
body, the latter were notified to operate the nervous 
system, and they in turn the muscles, thereby moving 
the hands containing the instrument and make on 
paper or other material an imitation of their own de- 
sign; that was the drawing we now see in every text 
book on geometry. Thus are thoughts worked out and 

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manifested. The thought itself, however, remains part 
of the electronic man. 

An inventor, will see, as it were, in his "mind's 
eye'* the new invention he is striving to create. When 
he *'sees it," the invention is truly made. He 
**thinks it over," plans further, and becomes more 
certain ; which means, that the electrons are re-examin- 
ing and adjusting themselves; myriads of them which 
may not be permanent members exactly of a particu- 
lar thought-design, are scrutinizing the actual figure 
along its lines to make sure it is complete. That means 
an * 'afterthought." 

We have said that the grouping process in a thought- 
design once finished by the electrons, it so remains, 
and is constantly supported by and in closest inter- 
course with all those on other duties, like an organized 
army sustained and recruited from the nation at large. 

A thought-design finished becomes at once an 
elaboration upon the foregoing one, part of a chain of 
thoughts. 

The accumulation of such designs or thoughts con- 
stitutes the sum of life; never again do they dissolve; 
every act in life has its origin in such a grouping into 
figure, picture or design, and be it ever so innocent or 
simple, it is stored among the others. It all remains 
organized, though the cells in which it formed dis- 
solve. 

There is a complete electronic outline of the entire 
body; for every nerve has been used as a pathway by 
electrons to and from the brain — and without this 
continuous * 'current" and grouping, could there be 
any purpose discernable at all for organization of mat- 
ter into organic form? 

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This is the **eIectronic structure" that remains in 
perfect order, circulates, and keeps on working and 
constructing when the material body is discarded, die. 

The complete electronic organization has taken 
place, for that purpose matter had to be employed. 
The soul of man is organized, then, from the primitive 
free electrons which would forever have remained 
free, unorganized, if gradation through matter, in var- 
iations of types required for each successive higher 
step, had not been resorted to intelligently. And thus 
finished is the soul for higher activity and eternal devel- 
opment, not totally detached, however, as already said, 
from the great unorganized source, but in a finer meas- 
ure is forever grounded in it. 

Hence it is true that the soul of man is eternal, had 
no beginning, can have on end. It is working its way 
upward, always upward, forever to higher regions. 
From the primeval source whence it came, through in- 
numerable stages, it is working its way into a world of 
the most exalted beauty of organized grandeur, to be- 
come a distinct part, indeed, of that wonderful in- 
finite life in which complete harmony, based upon or- 
ganization most divine, is enthroned to such magnificent 
heights that we cannot even begin here to touch upon 
its perfection. In that wonderful Kingdom of God, 
the little soul organized here will have a place, for **in 
my Father's house are many mansions," and in the 
nature of itself will rise to the loftiest fields of future 
activity, and certainly identify itself and all its 
kind upon the glorious highway to greater immortality. 

While it is true that all mortal beings have thus a 
chance to remain perfectly organized, electronically, 
and obtain conscious immortality, it is equally true 

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that there are conditions, and that all do not obtain 
it merely because they at present live. Immortality 
is not thrust upon any one, but the chance for it is, 
and work alone in the right direction can secure it for 
the worker, it must be fought for and won for its own 
worth. 

The soul of man must be a real active electronic 
being, not a dull indifferent one, in order to withstand 
the process of exit from matter. A new born baby 
is more certain of continuous life than many an adult, 
though it might live but a few moments upon earth. 
The reasons indicating this to be so are too many to 
be briefly discussed, so for the present we leave them. 

Though we have stated that a thought-design once 
organized it will so remain, there are exceptions, too 
intricate for analyzation here, and it shall therefore 
only be said that when under given conditions there 
is interference, the established chains of thoughts may 
appear in a state of fragments and manifest themselves 
in incoherent language and actions — insanity. 

All of us are here to work for the well-being of all 
mankind, first for the betterment of material condi- 
tions, which by degree and in time serve to facilitate 
other endless myriads of electronic entities in their 
transition through matter — this is the main work we 
have here to do, for it is the infinite maker of all things 
who is individualizing himself, using this and untold 
millions of other planets for the purpose. Other 
duties are more plain. It is utterly insufficient for a 
person to merely **look after" him or herself and those 
immediately dependent upon him; a wild animal in 
the forests does as much for its family. That is merely 
**the first law of nature," etc., when in reality there is 

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no such a **law." But there is an everlasting obliga- 
tion resting upon each individual life to let its influence 
for good reach outside the principle of self, an obliga- 
tion to help the other self to live and progress. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

Doubtless we have now arrived at a point in our 
discourse where some will demand proof for what has 
so far been asserted, and, notwithstanding the fact that 
the writer, as will be recalled, in the very beginning 
of these pages employed the words suggestions and 
strongest convictions, we are for the sake of additional 
support led to reconsider, briefly, the nature of radium, 
as well as the theories of light, etc. ; for, in the absence 
of mathematical demonstration, who will not ask ques- 
tions perhaps very difficult to answer, questions sur- 
mised by the writer, however, which the following 
pages, we hope, will satisfy, at least to some basic ex- 
tent. 

The questions, that will need mostly additional ex- 
planation are, no doubt, revolving about the elec- 
trons here asserted to organize themselves, and the 
conviction expressed that there are classes of electrons, 
etc., and to arrive at as clear and convincing answers 
as possible, let us for a moment consider first the ac- 
cepted theory of light, that is, the wave or undulatory 
theory. 

First there is supposed to exist a universally distrib- 
uted medium which is in a state of vibration every- 
where and which is called the ether. The ether is 
assumed to be of so exceedingly rare and elastic a 
nature that it is capable of vibrating throughout in- 
finity. Briefly, light is, therefore, supposed to consist 
of waves in the ether, and which are so numerous that 
they strike the retina of our visual organ, many millions 
of times per second, and that this vibration causes the 
sensation of light. 

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Now, with every respect due science and the inter- 
esting hypothesis, it appears to be somewhat far-fetched. 

In the first place, it is certainly beyond the wildest 
flight of human fancy to conceive of such a thing as 
any medium whatever, that could possibly consist of 
a stratum absolutely homogeneous, and not of minute 
particles, no matter how infinitesimally small they might 
be. And if it does consist of minute parts or bodies, 
the ether can be nothing but an existence of electrons. 
In other words, whatever constitutes the ether, it must 
exist in the nature of parts. Could anything but a 
geometric point be smaller than the primeval electron 
we have tried to describe? and if not, is not this all 
that possibly could exist beyond the intangible and the 
utterly incalculable? 

They must then be in a state almost of im- 
mobility in order to permit cosmic vibration. 

It must also be distinctly remembered that vibration 
in itself can create nothing. Could genesis spring from 
unreal motion? 

On the other hand, the corpuscular theory, first 
propagated by our immortal Newton, but subsequently 
rather discarded in favor of the undulatory theory, 
seems to possess advantages that, to the writer's mind, 
will be difficult to dispose of. 

The fact that complete darkness may be caused by 
light — as silence may also be caused by sound; cold 
by heat, etc., phenomena referred to as the "theory of 
interference," and which is largely taken as final proof 
of the undulatory theory's correctness do not appeal to 
the writer as overwhelming proof, after all. And 
science does not deny that at least certain light rays 

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are electrons; nor that electrons are in motion. We 
may, therefore, with propriety ask: 

Do the electrons cause the waves in the ether, or 
do the waves cause the motion and speed of the elec- 
trons? and again, what is behind these phenomena 
whichever be the case? The ray wave, or radiation 
is simply the effect — what is the cause? 

There are reasons to believe that the corpuscular 
principle, though somewhat elaborated, in conjunction 
widi a certain wave principle, of course, are both at 
work. On that subject, there is subsequently some- 
thing to be said, space and plan here not permitting 
submission of experimental result. 

The corpuscular theory, however, taken merely as 
particles projected through space, radiating from their 
centers, is inadequate also, and we shall in this con- 
nection be obliged to consider that, doubtless, we are 
face to face with innumerable classes of these particles 
or electrons; and that the classes associate themselves 
with their respective nearest in kind; that large and 
small electrons exist, combinations of many into one, 
and that, therefore, one class is heavier or lighter than 
another, and hence under different rates of speed. 
The question is of the greatest importance, as to 
whether such classes actually do exist. 

Compelled by fact and phenomena, we find it a 
matter of necessity to interpret the spectrum in a man- 
ner that in a measure may clash with established views, 
although, it may be argued, what difference would it 
make whether the various colors of light in the spectrum 
be due to a difference in rapidity of wave motion in a 
universal ether, or due to a difference of heavier and 
lighter electrons and should, consequently, behave some- 
thing like other bodies under momentum. But it would 

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make a great difference. For, as already stated, 
waves or vibration merely can create nothing. The 
creative principle being forever active, nevertheless, 
must be accounted for. 

For various reasons the w^riter regards the mere un- 
dulation theory of light as incomplete, and for still 
other reasons, adheres to the corpuscular, though with 
his own elaboration of it, by way of classification of 
electrons, and by way of evident co-operation between 
the two theories in a manner that co-ordinates them 
in their respective functions. 

There will be found a class consisting of the pri- 
meval electron as asserted; and other classes in which 
are two, three, four, etc., up to hundreds, nay thou- 
sands, combined into one; but here it should be dis- 
tinctly remembered that even the very heaviest elec- 
tron is still, in size, far below even the lightest atom. 

Tyndall proved that invisible rays exist beyond the 
ultra-violet in the spectrum that can be made luminous, 
and that other rays exist beyond the region of the in- 
fra-red. 

Knowing that innumerable rays, visible and in- 
visible, do exist, and assuming these rays to consist of 
electrons under motion, traveling under various rates 
of speed according to size, etc., we can find an ex- 
planation for the various colors in the spectrum, the 
symmetrical angels produced by them, their actinic prop- 
erties, and the heat sensation. And a correct compre- 
hension of these will go far, indeed, to finally enable 
us to fathom the very principle of creation. Mean- 
time, the principle or theory of valency that has worked 
out so well in modern chemistry will be found closely 
allied with electronic activity and explain itself. 

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Radiating through space at the specific rate of speed 
established by science, and causing the sensation called 
light, the radiating electrons, are not associated with 
heat, for it is well known that while traversing inter- 
stella space a temperature prevails of something like 
three hundred degrees below zero, and the writer pro- 
poses, that not until resistance is encountered does heat 
develop; in a cosmic sense, for example, when light- 
electrons are obstructed by the atmosphere of our earth. 
Their specific speed is then and there reduced, and 
only partly do they reach the earth's surface as light, 
while under the lower rate of motion, now established, 
the rest of them become active in a modified way as 
heat-electrons and commence at once to constitute 
themselves in matter, as set forth; in fact, partly those 
that reach the earth's surface in the form of light are 
also by degree converted into heat electrons — ^while 
others are reflected back into space by surfaces such as 
the oceans, etc., and escape absorption into matter and, 
therefore, though reduced in speed, remain free. 

The wonderful properties of radium, its capabihty 
of transmutation from one element into another, its 
ability to sustain several degrees of temperature above 
its surroundings, its sustenance of weight despite con- 
tinuous emanation and radiation, may, indeed, well 
be considered mysteries, for certainly, nothing could 
appear more paradoxical. Under reasons light, where 
in the universe is there a substance parts of which C2tn 
be constantly sent forth into space, be they ever so 
minute, and under steady evolution of heat, without 
a method of replenishment, not only of substance but 
of energy? 

These facts and properties demand that a source 
of supply must exist, from which new atoms of radium 

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are being constructed as rapidly as the old ones are 
being broken up into fractions and radiated away. 
In other words, mysterious as it may appear, a certain 
class of electrons are, no doubt, in the first instance 
combining into atoms, but another class is invading this 
newly formed matter, endeavoring to organize in it — 
as in ordinary matter — and in so doing, the newly 
formed atoms are just as persistently being broken up, 
and the escaping different "rays" and particles are 
ready in an active state to form new elements, hence 
transmutation. 

Or shall we say that the process involved in the 
entire run of transformations from Uranium, Thorium, 
Actinium, etc., is one of Nature's original manifesta- 
tions in the way of forming a solid that would finally 
Cohere, atomically, sufficient to serve as matter? 
This would seem analogous to the behavior of some 
chemical elements which very reluctantly enter into 
combination with others, and when they do they seem 
to prefer the moment for the purpose when liber- 
ated from other combinations. 

The radium transmutation process resembles also the 
transformation principle of one force into another, such 
as the well known changes from electricity to magnet- 
ism, heat, light, etc., and into mechanical work. 

Science has discovered that the radio-active atoms 
are being broken down, that the product of the 
radiation is partly of the substance itself and pardy 
rays manifested — in other words, both substance and 
energy are Hberated — ^the latter in the form of heat, 
the cause of which being unknown. 

To the writer's way of thinking, however, radium 
appears like a primitive **gate way," so to speak, a 
point of **invasion," for the primeval electron and other 

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classes through which they enter into action in mat- 
ter, with the distinct object also to form other chemical 
elements for subsequent organization purposes. And 
as they enter under a pressure inherent to them and the 
state from which they emerge, the atoms of the sub- 
stance being unstable in their positions because of hav- 
ing had insufficient experience and time to settle, 
are, as stated, constantly being interferred with and 
scattered. A regiment of young, inexperienced re- 
cruits is easier conquered and disorganized than are 
old, well trained soldiers. Radium is a substance in 
which the atoms composing it have not quite yet found 
their respective positions and routine. During the 
inrush, heat is generated, because the original 
rate of speed or motion of the electrons is resisted and 
therefore diminished, much as the light electrons when 
striking the earth's atmosphere then apear partly as 
heat. 

It should be understood that the primeval claiss or 
stratum of electrons must take the place of the ether. 
They are the finest or minutest of all classes, which 
fact enables them to penetrate space and matter alike, 
and, undoubtedly, they exercise the same pressure or 
tendency to break down the atoms in all kinds of 
matter, but are simply becoming less effective down 
the scale of the radio-active elements as their remote- 
ness from the parent elements of radium increases. 
The atoms in older, ordinary matter are gradually be- 
coming more stable in position and therefore offer 
greater resistance and hence remain in concrete state. 

TTiis would mean that radium is a form of matter 
struggling for permanency; that it is virgin sub- 
stance, younger than any other form of matter; that in- 
stead of thousands of years of life, it is ephemeral in ex- 

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istence only; the little speck of radium of to-day is not 
the same to-morrow, it only so appears, for it is thus 
reconstructed about as rapidly as it is being destroyed. 
Hence, it must always exist in but the smallest of 
quantities. 

Would this suggest erroneous reasoning on the part 
of some profound students and investigators of emi- 
nence who have postulated that and almost inexhausti- 
ble store of energy is **locked up in the radium atom?" 

In the true nature of things, could any atom at all 
possibly in itself either contain or generate energy were 
it not constantly reenergized from the boundless source 
of the universe? But if the atom be thus perpetually 
reconstructed, what would it mean if not a confirma- 
tion of what has here been written, of the most exalted 
truth? 



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CHAPTER V. 

Finally a great question presents itself to the reader: 
Can proof for the correctness of this electronic view 
of life, death, and immortaHty be obtained? The 
answer is that not only it is possible but quite probable. 

It can be obtained, however, only by way of experi- 
ment, but some of the results, upon which we shall 
lightly touch, can be seen in advance. 

If there is, as has been stated in the forgoing pages, 
such a thing as a constitutional or dominant class of 
electrons active in the various types of individuals, it 
can be found. If it were found and a given individual 
were to live under the influence of his or her very dom- 
inant chord of life, what would take place? We should 
witness, indeed, the most startling results. 

The great idea of transfiguration refened to and 
promised by Christ as a process that is actually to 
take place on this earth in **the fulfilment of time," is 
a process that, to the writer's mind, has actually taken 
place in all creation and in all ages, though in slow 
degree, that is, changes from one form into another, 
or in other words, evolution, but which in the case of 
man is to occur more suddenly at some future 
day, so that the physical body is to become so purified 
that death shall not be necessary. 

As a matter of fact and truth the Creator, which is 
the infinite living electronic state of the universe, em- 
ploys means and ways for every purpose He accom- 
plishes, and it is certain that the promised transfigura- 
tion must likewise be facilitated by means and meth- 
ods now in Nature's keeping. Can we obtain knowl- 
edge as to these means and methods that shall accom- 
plish this wonderful work? 

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Well, in the light of what we have already pointed 
out, it does not seem beyond the hope of man to 
actually become acquainted with the agencies involved, 
for certainly, as stated elsewhere, the purification of 
all the four channels through which the dominant elec- 
trons of our lives are forever struggling to enter the hu- 
man system, are plainly basic in the process. It seems 
obvious, therefore, that in reality we are already on the 
right road to an understanding of it all. The final 
and actual transfiguration process means, consequently, 
no more no less than the time when man, by the graces 
of God, philosophy and science, shall have learned to 
hasten or quickly promote the exalted idea. 

Since the constitutional electron, as a class, of a hu- 
man being can be found and isolated, it can also be 
brought to bear in great measure upon an individual's 
life, and it follows that, proportionately as it is per- 
mitted to enter the body more unhampered, there will 
be a gradual exclusion process of the alien or less fitted 
electrons, as well as a diminishing demand for the 
cruder methods under which they now enter, that is, 
less material foods and even less supplies of oxygen 
will be required. 

The constitutional electrons by the grace of which 
a human being exists, is truly the **God within us." 
Bar those that have no real place in the individual, 
and the "God within," will assert himself and be 
clearly seen. If a person be afflicted, for example, 
with an ill temper, it is because of interfering different 
classes of electrons, and just so soon as his "real self" 
be allowed to enthrone itself more strongly, a finer and 
more rational temper will follow. 

An atheist shall thus find his God. Righteousness 
shall conquer iniquity, ugliness turn to beauty. Sick- 

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ness must vanish in a glow of health. Though a per- 
son may look and feel old, youthful appearance and 
strength must return. The ''century mark,*' now so 
coveted, may be eclipsed by several centuries, for while, 
in the course of destiny all life of this planet shall 
pass into that other beautifully organized world, where 
goes all life also from other planets, a long era of a 
higher, purer and far nobler life is yet to be lived upon 
this earth. 

There rises now the fairest vision before the writer's 
eyes. It is a place of lofty altitudes, clear atmosphere 
' and sky, where leaps and vibrates the light of heaven 
in a hundred colors and hues, radiating from sun, stars 
and satelHtes, meteors and nebula, from every old and 
new source of artifical light produced upon earth; 
where scientists and investigators are intensely engaged 
in isolating special classes of electrons by new means 
and methods, and where those present may select their 
own very life's principle, the **God within" them, a 
heavenly experimental station of life. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

For the convenience of the esteemed readers who 
might wish to memorize the essence of the foregoing 
pages as a matter, perhaps of future reference when a 
larger and more detailed volume on the subject shall 
have been written, or possibly for the sake of the truths 
he hopes may have been conveyed to them, so far, in 
this little volume, the author has deemed it proper to set 
forth the sum and substance of the same in the follow- 
ing few paragraphs. 

Thus it will be remembered that the first and very 
important statement or suggestion made was concerning 
the nature of an electron. 

( 1 ) To the single electron we attribute, potential- 
ly, all the characteristics and qualities of Deity, and as 
consisting of neither matter, nor force, but conceive 
it as divine quality divinely convertible into quantity — 
matter. 

Collectively, it is conceived as onmipresent, omni^ 
potent and wisdom in itself, etc. 

(2) That electrons exist in many different classes, 
the primaeval, the most minute and the speediest, being 
at the bottom of all things, its duration being eternity. 

(3) That electrons construct atoms, manipulate 
them, and thereby produce matter, cementing by their 
own residuary vigilance, the atoms together, etc. 

(4) A. We conceive of a universe under three 
different aspects, one that existed before as much as a 
particle of matter was created, the unorganized but 
living infinity — God, that is, the primeval electronic 
state, all cosmic life. 

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B. The organized state of the universe, in- 
cluding the electronic structure of man, or his soul, 
built up of unorganized electrons by means of and ma- 
nipulation of matter. 

C. The material world, all matter contained in 
space, being created by the electrons for the specific 
purpose of serving them to organize into living en- 
tities consisting of great numbers in one being. 

(5) We hold that science has erred in assuming 
that artificial life could be produced; that there 

* is but one real life, and that life does not eman- 
ate from matter, but that matter is a product of Hfe, 
and that therefore there is present in all matter, at 
least in small degree, some of the living electrons, which 
when properly nourished, that is, reinforced by others 
coming from without, the chemical elements may be 
so arranged as to facilitate the growth of lower forms 
of life; we admit that science in this respect may 
have succeeded in arranging the chemical elements, but 
that there could be no success without the influence of 
stimuli, light, etc., which according to the author's 
views, is life though unorganized. 

(6) TTiat neither the undulatory nor the corpus- 
cular theory of light is wholly correct; but that both 
co-operate; that such a thing as an ether everywhere 
present, homogeneous, and incomprehensibly elastic 
does not exist, but that in its place the primeval electron 
is the medium in which all other classes of electrons 
exist, that such a primeval stratum of electrons would 
at once permit, because of their infinite littleness, wave 
motion as well as individual and collective activity, as- 
serting that vibration merely is in effect not creative, 
but rather destructive. 

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(7) That the spectrum phenomena of colors, etc., 
are not due altogether to wave motion but also to dif- 
ference in size, speed, etc., of electrons. 

(8) That electrons invade matter, constructing 
first organic cells, and that from the lowest to the high- 
est of all forms of organic life, the main object is to 
complete the electronic organization taking place within 
the physical body; that the latter is merely a neces- 
sary means for obtaining resistance to electronic motion 
and arrangement, and that in all the various forms of 
life, there is a constitutional electron (class) which is 
ever endeavoring to organize itself to the exclusion of 
the more alien classes taking advantage of four special 
methods, ways or channels through which they enter 
and cause the increasing growth of a physical body; 
also that the possibility, nay probability, is that these 
may so be purified that material means may be finally 
very much discarded, and that, when all has been said, 
there is consistency in the great promise of Christ with 
regard to transfiguration; and that a wonderful co- 
operative trinity principle exists throughout it all. 

(9) That the true nature of radio-activity con- 
firms in great degree this electronic view; that we think 
it a scientific error to assume that there is an almost in- 
finite source of energy stored in an atom; that, on the 
contrary, there is no more energy in a radium atom 
than in any other atom, that its real source of supply 
is the electronic world behind the substance, and 
that electrons are constantly bursting forth from the 
invisible unorganized world, constructing new atoms 
as fast as other classes of electrons are de- 
stroying the old, its life, therefore, being very short 
rather than very long, all due to the probable fact 
that radium atoms are unstable; being, no doubt, one 

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of nature's original methods of construing matter, and 
that, therefore, the transmutation products of radium 
emanations become more ordinary or common matter 
the farther removed from the parent elements; that 
radium is, consequently, a substance that is as con- 
stantly being recreated as it is being annihilated; 
that the energy in the form of heat is due to arrest or 
resistance of electronic speed or motion as they under 
slower motion appear as heat, that the atom itself, as 
stated, gives off no more energy than other matters. 

(10) That that which interests us the most is 
the formation of thought, which is due to electrons, by 
virtue of their potential powers, grouping themselves 
into any desired figure, by way of first forming lines, 
curves, triangles, squares, circles, etc., then pictures or 
designs, and that once such a thought-design is finished 
by them, it may or may not project itself into the ob- 
jective world, but that nothing is ever tangibly material- 
ized without first being subjectively constructed by such 
electronic design ; that the sum of life consists of all the 
thoughts of a lifetime, and remain part of our eternal 
life. 

Many things have been said and written concerning 
the obscurity of our so-called mental **faculties,'* and 
just so soon as one of the mysteries has seemed within 
the grasp of comprehension, another would present it- 
self, in connection therewith, for solution, so that, 
while progress in this field of research has undoubtedly 
been made, it to-day seems to many rather more mys- 
terious than ever. 

Has, perhaps, a relatively simple proposition become 
unduly complicated? 

Could it be that a few characteristic attitudes and 
modes of operation of one identical principle have mere- 

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ly become confounded with, and submerged in, a 
thousand technical terms and confusing phraseologies? 

For example, what is imagination? certainly it must 
consist of something. In it the first gleams of thought 
are signaled whose empire embraces the depth of an 
electron as well as the starry firmament. We "see 
something," we have 'Visions," imaginative persons are 
called **dreamers," etc., for the crude outHnes of such 
thought-effort may be sweeping in scope, suggestive in 
character, may have an element of genuineness, or it 
may be enormous exaggeration with the scantiest foun- 
dation ; but never perfected, clearly crystalized thought. 

Fact is that as the electrons enter into the brain for 
constructive mental action, it is but natural that they 
cannot instantly form any distinct thought, design or 
figure, as little as a large number of unorganized per- 
sons can suddenly be brought under organization. 

Temporarily the electrons thus ready for service are 
in a state of intelligent anticipation and are already, so 
to speak, making attempts at forming thought-designs 
before actually joining in working out deliberately the 
figure in which they are each and all to remain forever 
as integral parts. 

While in this state of immediate preparation to enter 
into permanent position — the evolution of a thought- 
design taking some time if it be at all original — there is 
eagerness, attempts and demonstrations throughout the 
still rather unorganized legions, and this electronic ex- 
citement and intense activity constitute the **f acuity" 
called imagination. Imagination is like searching fore- 
runners to finished thought-designs. 

There are maximum and minimum rates of elec- 
tronic activity. The latter prevails under sound slum- 
ber, when nocturnal visions or dreams disturb not their 

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quiet work. We often wonder how it is that a prob- 
lem given up as difficult of solution will some day sud- 
denly and unexpectedly surprise us clearly solved with- 
out any attempt on our part to reach a result — it was 
abandoned. 

The crude idea or plan had undergone a finishing 
process; electrons at their lowest working rate mentally 
had gradually completed the project. This kind of 
work in the deep abysses of the electronic world in the 
human brain is in a way and in methods much like 
careful subterranean engineering, and is all the mystery 
there is to subconsciousness. 

''Consciousness" is the knowledge possessed, col- 
lectively, by the electrons in an individual, that they 
are there present billions upon billions to co-operate in 
their own organization. 

Will power is the result of a pressure among the 
electrons ready to become immortal thought, but yet 
in the state where imagination soars; this pressure is 
analogous to the voltage in the science of elec- 
tricity, the rapidity with which a thought is formed is 
not unlike the ampere, in other words — ^pressure and 
flow. Will is, therefore, a forcing forward of elec- 
trons to construct and to sustain a thought. 

The sum of all the thoughts so constructed, and for- 
ever linked together, subject to being brought into view 
singly or in groups whenever a given cause compels 
them, we in a word call memory. 

Harmonious co-operation among all the * 'faculties*' is 
what we call mind and intelligence. But all the "fac- 
ulties" result entirely from attitude, pressure, numbers, 
class, high or low working rate, etc., of the electrons. 

Concerning all that is meant by the terms "occult," 
theosophy, spiritualism, psychic manifestation, etc., the 

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author has no desire either to confirm or deny any of the 
assertions made by sincere investigators. 

Only let us remember this: When the evolution of 
the human soul, that is, the organized electronic being 
has reached the state where it is fitted for progress with- 
out any further affiliation with matter, it enters, or is 
actually drawn, into the organized electronic world to 
become part thereof, and can henceforth have no par- 
ticular interest in earthly affairs; it is in the ascent, 
under a higher rate of evolution toward higher planes 
or spheres of existence, and as it rises to become more 
intensely interwoven as a conscious integral entity in 
and with this wonderful eternal life, it just as gradually 
must cease to be interested in its former material exis- 
tence — much as we are disinterested in a bridge we 
crossed long years ago and which is now but a matter 
of memory — it was of greater interest to us while ap- 
proaching and crossing it. That the entire organized 
living universe reacts upon the unfinished is another 
thing which cannot be dilated upon here. 

On the other hand, considering the fact that elec- 
trons are everywhere present, within us and without 
that they are the connecting link between any two ob- 
jects on land and sea, in heaven and upon earth, that 
they constitute the connecting medium of all the objects 
in the infinite universe, that of them even the faintest, 
the humblest thought is m.ade, it seems plain also that 
so called psychic manifestation is not so difficult of an 
explanation, after all. 

When a certain thought-design is once formed within 
the brain and subsequently projected into the material 
world visible to everybody, say in the form of a new 
invention, an artist's work, or any other thing, it has 
actually been duplicated, the original remaining on 

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record within the brain. This should make it less dif- 
ficult to understand that a thought, picture, etc., might, 
likewise, project itself, under given conditions, straight 
into the brain of another person, the electrons dominant 
in the two individuals being of the same class, of course, 
for, as stated, distance can be no hindrance. 

Would this explain the nature of the phenomena 
called telepathy? 

And cannot the power of a prayer, the nature of a 
dream, hypnotism, in short, all psychic phenomena 
be explained upon the same electronic basis? 

The author most sincerely believes that the key 
to a broader understanding of many things lies in a 
comprehension of the methods employed by the in- 
visible electronic world. 

A FEW REMARKS 

Thoughts are many, the soul electrons of the writer 
are forcing forward for expression, and the thousands 
of things he is anxious to tell, will have to wait for 
some little time. So those who may wish to ask 
questions he can only assure of his readiness to answer, 
to the best of his ability, whenever opportunity shall 
present itself. 

Everywhere is the electron, we have said. The 
rdoctrine of pantheism, some wall say. Very well, to 
that extent pantheism is true, the "universe is God," 
**all is God," etc., but in itself that really explains but 
little. We have a right to know the methods in- 
volved in the workings of all. We have a right to 
know whether or not we shall continue to exist in a 
.5tate conscious to the individual. 

But that God, the Creator, is everywhere is certainly 

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true. Cleave the rock, or split the earth, He is there, 
in the form of electrons. 

The pressure prevailing in the realm of the primeval 
electrons is so great that all matter is like a sponge, 
comparatively speaking. No fourth-dimension-specu- 
lation is necessary to fathom this. Great scientific 
minds, such as Lord Kelvin and others, have already 
hinted that instead of vsdthin an inconceivably fine, 
elastic ether, light sensation can be possible only 
through a medium billions of times more rigid than 
steel, and that celestial bodies are almost like **holes" 
in this medium. 

But this view can scarcely be considered true, as 
little as can the supposed ether. Fact is that so soon 
as the primeval electrons form into combination elec- 
trons, the latter require greater space for their move- 
ments; when they in turn form greater combination 
electrons, still greater space is required by them. 
They are under circular rotation like the material worlds 
about their centers. The great combinations, the great- 
er space between and among them is demanded, and 
so on up to inter-stellar space among and between 
the planets in our solar system, and between the lat- 
ter and all the systems in the galaxy. 

The deep world of the primeval electron, however, 
exercises a terrible pressure upon all and everything 
else, because of this continual demand for greater 
space, reactive in character, and this pressure partly en- 
ables them to penetrate matter, which is of far less 
density, and which may therefore truly be compared 
with a very porous sponge in which the electrons, never- 
theless, find the required resistance for their own organ- 
ization purposes. 

From space^ the primeval electronic existence, 

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everything originates and not into the earth do we go, 
but into space again. 

The heaven we shall see is greatly different from 
what many think. The author asks no one to be- 
lieve in what here has been writen unless the reader 
feels otherwise compelled. 

There is here no desire to create doctrine of any kind 
but simply to impart what to him is a sacred convic- 
tion; to consecrate unto others the same if possible. 
What philosophers of the ages have pondered over; 
what great poets have sung of and seen is indeed 
worth while to think of. 

Heaven as seen and understood by the writer is an 
existence that he shall not here venture even to begin 
to picture, an existence so wondrous in infinite beauty 
and startling surprises that when once we find our- 
selves there we shall indeed be glad for the privilege 
given us to live here. 

How to obtain in that wonderful v/orld recogni- 
tion may be gleamed from the pages of the following 
second part, for, indeed, while there are limitless 
heights to be reached, there are also deplorable depths 
to be seriously avoided. 



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PART II. 

CHAPTER I. 

Precisely as the individual electrons co-operate in 
grouping themselves into distinct formations or thought- 
designs, so are all the latter closely interwoven, like a 
net work of electrons, into one whole of an individual's 
life, which, when releasing itself from matter, at death, 
will not be entirely isolated, however, from other in- 
dividual entities, but remains with all organized elec- 
tronic life in certain co-operative relationship in the 
world to come. The formation process of thought- 
design takes place within the cells as also in inter-cellu- 
lar space. This has no reference, though, either to the 
lysigenous or schizogenous spaces which in botany are 
recognized as being due simply to the breaking down 
of other cells. 

Perhaps it may seem strange that, after all, there 
should actually exist an element of danger to the ef- 
fect that everybody may not succeed in establishing 
conscious immortality, the creative principle being so 
equally and so broadly at work. Religious devotion, 
sincere faith and prayer are powerful, undoubtedly, 
but inadequate; there is forever action required. The 
real danger lies in inactivity and lack of a thorough 
sense of responsibility for our fellow man while exist- 
ing here. For there rests, already remarked, an ever- 
lasting obligation upon each human being to aid in 
every possible way his fellows in this great process of 
transition through matter into that other world to which 
all have an equal right, though all have not at present 
equal opportunities. And to facilitate this great, 

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journey for all, the most effective means should be to co- 
operate in establishing just conditions under which 
to live in this world ; it is of great importance, it is stern 
demand. To feel seriously conscious of such an indi- 
vidual responsibility and, therefore, give the best that 
is in us to the cause of emancipation of all the world- 
wide masses of humanity that have never yet enjoyed 
the freedom which is theirs; never yet seen the op- 
portunities essential to every living being for greater 
development. To work earnestly for them while here 
is to prepare oneself for a higher, far nobler and im- 
mortal life. 

Here we stand face to face with all the unsettled 
social problems that have been the crux in the affairs 
of mankind for centuries, and which are to-day shak- 
ing the peace of the world from pole to pole, cruci- 
fying innocent children in mills, mines and factories, 
for gain; hideous, monstrous child labor! which un- 
settled conditions are also destroying all the loftier 
qualities in man's character, causing ignoble and de- 
cidedly ignorant race prejudices to flourish, and which 
are, furthermore, responsible for the sorrowful condi- 
tion of a hundred million little innocent children all 
over the earth in the world's greater cities being con- 
gested into helpless masses, condemned to exist in 
heartless misery, while their poor mothers are strug- 
gling through life under the heaviest of burdens, in the 
twentieth century still utterly deprived of every civic 
right that by divine grace and decree belongs to her 
even more than to man. 

It is the same old conundrums that are responsible 
for all the social evils, that prevail, responsible for all 
the labor disturbances and social up-heavals the world 
over; they are at the bottom too of the everlasting 

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murderous wars in which nations most cruelly and 
shamefully slaughter one another. 

And all this in the face of not less than seven dif- 
ferent political parties in beautiful America alone each 
one, at present proclaiming and promising salvation if 
only given a chance by the people to govern. 

Fellow man: not in political parties, not in end- 
less law making, nor in old or obsolete theories will 
salvation be found. There is in the very foundation 
of things an economically unrecognized factor of the 
greatest importance that must be recognized, a mis- 
sing link to be incorporated into all the other economic 
factors, before the greatest of all problems confronting 
the nations of the world can possibly be solved. And 
when in this connection the time-honored doctrine 
is denied that labor is the source of all wealth, the 
writer sincerely hopes that, whatever may be the judge- 
ment of the reader, the underlying motive may be seen 
in its true light and accepted as nothing short of the 
sincerest desire to serve the human race. 

When once and for all the question has been set- 
tled as to what is the real source of wealth, we shall be 
nearer a just solution. But that must be answered — 
the source must be unmistakably located. 



"Capital" and **labor" are two words so familiar in 
every language throughout the civilized world that, 
when and wherever mentioned, they instantly convey 
to the minds of thinking men and women ideas of 
struggles, **labor troubles," * 'strikes," questions of jus- 
tice, injustice, problems of distributions, etc. They 

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arc the two basic words in every volume written upon 
the subject of poHtical economy; so grounded into the 
minds of men have they become that scholar, layman 
and laborer, rich and poor, seem dominated entirely 
by the force of this phrase when social conditions are 
debated, as if nothing else of genuine importance ex- 
isted in the world of industry. 

It is conceded, however, that all human activity is 
labor, in some form or other. 

Thus, so-called '*brain work,*' such as manage- 
ment, directing skill, discovery, etc., are human ac- 
quirements frequently enough alluded to in the various 
doctrines or theories advanced for the betterment of 
society, although such a thing as to co-ordinate them 
with the above two economic factors, as an element of 
equal importance, has never been attempted. 

Result of intellectual endeavor, including creative 
work of genius, is found — so far as is concerned its 
intrinsic value — ^merged in deep, depreciated chaos, 
into which light must be shed and order estabhshed, 
before a method of ideal co-operation among the pro- 
ductive forces can possibly be inaugurated. 

It is not difficult to see why so universal an inter- 
est has come to center in the two factors referred to, 
for, since the beginning of history, the power of money 
has been so well known and admitted that no further 
comments on that subject are here needed. 

And when it is considered that, by the term * 'la- 
bor," one generally thinks of employed labor, that is, 
labor sold for wages, a class that, by force of num- 
bers alone, stands out as one fundamental factor 
against the other — employee against employer — it is 
found to be employed labor the world over that is 
directly involved in the war of workers against capital. 

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Because of the great numbers comprising rank and 
file of labor, and because of a universal desire to bene- 
fit the greatest possible majority, to elevate the masses, 
another factor in economy, of the most vital importance 
for the realization of the very end in view, has, by the 
all-absorbing ''capital and labor problem," constantly 
been forced to remain in the shadow. 

Labor, as a class, is most powerful, and, realizing 
its value, naturally, as an absolutely necessary element in 
the industries of the world, does not hesitate to ex- 
claim : 

*'We are the source of all wealth, for which reason 
we demand our share in full of all the profits accru- 
ing from our labor!" 

Labor thus insists that capital in nothing but 
**stored up labor." 

Capital, on the other hand, does not quite agree 
with this broad claim, but argues that without capital, 
there would be little or nothing for labor to do, etc. 

Both factors, in a measure, are right. To a great 
extent, they are wrong. 

Without intending to discuss here the merits of 
their respective claims to fundamental importance, it 
is certain that, in the last analysis, as to where they 
stand in the scale of industrial importance, both are 
seriously overrating themselves, for when the question 
concerning who or what constitutes the unchangeable 
true source of wealth shall have been sifted to the last 
degree, they will be seen, in the real order of things, to 
be of secondary importance only. 

And before that great question shall have been ab- 
solutely settled, we repeat and emphasize, no man can 
hope to show us the right and final method of distribu- 
tion. 

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Let it, therefore, be frankly stated that, strange and 
abrupt as it may sound to many, the great labor ele- 
ment above referred to is not the real wealth-creating 
class. 

There is another factor of far greater creative value 
than mere labor, skilled or unskilled, a factor so far 
reaching in scope and result that full recognition of its 
existence and profound importance ought to have been 
made at least a thousand years ago. The writer is 
here referring to the most basic element of all economic 
values — the creative, inventive principle — without the 
existence and persistence of which, both capital and 
labor would possess a far less intrinsic value. 

It goes without saying that what we understand by 
creative element includes art, literature, science and 
everything else that produces on first hand, although 
the inventive element is here set forth as basic to all. 

The great neglected truth is that, instead of the 
much recognized and widely discussed two factors, 
there are three, which, in their true order, begins with 
this principle, as the foundation source of wealth, then, 
secondary, comes capital; as number three, we have 
labor. 

Industry, considered as a gigantic organism, ap- 
pears much like a plant or tree, the trunk and branches 
of which correspond to capital and labor; its roots 
are under the ground, invisible; but we know that 
neither trunk nor branches could live without the roots, 
whose functions are of the greatest importance, there- 
fore, to the entire plant. 

The world's industry is a growth; it has roots, 
trunk and branches; the latter two (capital and labor) 
are constantly heard of and seen, but the roots (the 
creative principle) have always functioned quietly 

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while gathering nourishment for the rest of the growth 
upon which to thrive. 

Of all economic powers this principle will have to 
be recognized as number one. Were it made funda- 
mental in its relation to the other factors, we should 
have in industry a veritable "trinity principle." 

Man has never devised or discovered anything that 
was not inherent throughout nature, in force and mat- 
ter, in the organic as in the inorganic kindgoms. Na- 
ture leads in everything. The greatest and most com- 
plex inventions of man as well as the minutest ones 
are all foreshadowed in her wonderful work-shop. 
There are fishes like submarine boats, birds resembling 
airships, etc. More than that. Even human society 
throughout the ages, in all its phases, destructive and 
constructive changes, up to the present day, is in it- 
self a wonderful reflection upon a higher plane of what 
has taken place and still occurs upon the lower planes 
in nature's deeper abysses. 

In the realm of the invertebrates, we shall point 
only to the societies of bees, of ants, etc. 

In the light of these undeniable facts, may we not 
also, in support of the social theory here advanced, 
point to demonstrations of cosmic splendor and take 
lessons from the great designs presented in almost every 
direction, involving an association of three basic fac- 
tors? 

Thus, for example, our ver>' physical bodies, all 
alike in that respect, consist of head, trunk and appen- 
dages. 

For life, in the main, three organs — brain, lungs, 
and heart. 

Three branches in the nervous system; brain, spinal 
core and all the ramifications leading from the two. 

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These, in turn, as in the brain — cerebrum, cerebel- 
lum and medulla oblongata, etc. 

The regenerative organs again consist of three divi- 
sions. 

The lung apparatus, likewise, and so with the rest 
of all the systems embraced within our main system. 

Organic life in its entirety presents itself in three 
main divisions; all its microscopic existence, the whole 
vegetable world, and the animal kingdom, including 
man. 

In chemistry the invisible units involved in the very 
construction of matter consist of electrons, atoms and 
molecules. 

The hypothenuse theorem of Pythagoras, where the 
square is equal to the sum of two squares, speaks for 
itself. 

Move a geometric point and we have a line; move 
the latter and we have the surface; imagine the surface 
moved, and here is the geometric solid. 

Even a steam engine, boiler, cylinder and main 
axle, tells the same story. 

In the science of electricity, observe it, for example, 
in the dynamo. 

The great modern profession of electrical engineer- 
ing would amount to little but for Ohm's great law, i. 
e., taking pressure, flow and resistance and manipulate 
the same as may be desired; divide the volt by the 
ohm and obtain the ampere, or multiply the ampere 
by the ohm and get the volt. 

Three great periods of action for the farmer — prep- 
aration of the soil, sowing and reaping. 

Three motions of our earth — its flight through space, 
as a member of our solar system, following the sun; 

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its elliptical movement around the sun, and the rota- 
tion about its own axis. 

Three main elements for the globe — solid, liquid 
and atmosphere. 

In the kingdoms of flora and fauna it completely 
dominates. 

Celestial bodies present themselves in three main 
classes — **fixed stars," planets and comets. 

Despite the innumerable sub-races, types and na- 
tions comprising humanity, we recognize three main 
races: the Caucasian, Mongolian and the Negro races. 

Geography recognizes, in the main, three climates 
of our globe; tropic, temperate and arctic zones. 

Three elements are mainly involved in determining 
the efficiency or horsepower in whatever form of en- 
gine it may concern, be it steam-engines, electric mo- 
tors, gas engines, animal, wind or water powers, etc., 
namely, pressure, time and resistance. 

Of the entire infinite universe visible and invisible, 
we can conceive of no more than three fundamental 
factors; matter, time and space. 

There seems to be almost no limit to this funda- 
mental rule of three. 

Above, among and below the stars; far and near, 
within ourselves, and in all surroundings; within the 
earth and around it, on land and in the seas, we should 
be able to discern the same manifestations in a mil- 
lion instances, were it necessary. 

Alone in that which concerns directly human society 
itself, for its present and future welfare's sake; for 
the sake of all nations and every little individual; for 
the sake of progress, honor and justice; alone in that, 
in all social and political economy, where first of all 
it ought to have been organized, it appears myster- 

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iously strange by its glaring absence. Though it has 
been calling for attention throughout all the 
thousands of years of man's existence here, its silent 
voice has constantly fallen upon ears paralyzed and 
indifferent to every appeal. 

Were it possible to suddenly remove or make inac- 
tive one of the three elements involved in co-operative 
action in any one of the instances above cited, there 
would at once in such a case result serious interruptions. 

For example, if an electrical engineer were called 
upon to design the machinery for a great modern elec- 
tric power plant to furnish, say, twenty thousand in- 
dicated horsepower, knowing every detail of current 
flow, resistance, and the work it was intended to do, 
etc., but did not comprehend fully the meaning, and 
the relative importance and true nature of the volt, he 
would meet with untold troubles and tribulations 
throughout the whole combination, for the electric 
pressure behind it all would be either too high or too 
low so that he would burn up his dynamoes and mo- 
tors, or get an unsatisfactory and sluggish result. 

In this connection it should be remembered, of 
course, that a series of other factors are operative in 
conjunction with the three main ones emphasized; but 
all these are of greater or lesser importance only in 
their relations to the parent factors, decreasing in power 
and effect, much as does the phenomena of light as 
the square of the distance from its source. 

Such other elements resemble in their relative posi- 
tions to the main ones much the relation that commerce 
and its ramifications occupy as corollaries to invention, 
capital and labor. 

While the above comparisons may not be of great 
value in this argument, they seem, nevertheless, well 

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worthy of attention; for they bespeak one fundamental 
co-operative principle visible to man in three phases 
even beyond the vv^orld in which he dwells. 

Divine calculation appears mysteriously at work all 
about us, analytically and synthetically. 

Will the same spirit, in its own good time, aid the 
world in the solution of its greatest problem? 

May be that former United States Commissioner of 
Commerce and Labor, Mr. Carroll D. Wright, was 
not so mistaken in his idea, after all, when, during a 
terrible labor strike, he was quoted as having said that 
he had come to the conclusion that through religion 
alone could the labor question finally be solved. 

There was at the time when he so declared himself 
no lack of scoffers and derision in many quarters. 

The idea of invoking God and Religion in eco- 
nomic and political strife seemed to many ridiculous. 
There were also those he set seriously thinking, and 
others who fully agreed with him. 

Certain it is that the Creator of the universe is 
ceaselessly at work: His power is manifested also 
through the creative ability of man, and the sooner this 
truth be universally recognized and made basic in the 
world's industry and commerce, the sooner we shall 
see in a clearer light the earthly values, and disputes 
between capital and labor and the difference of opin- 
ion as to what is the spring of wealth will cease. Bet- 
ter organization and co-operation will then he possible. 

Since the dawn of human intelHgence upon earth, 
the creative principle has been forever at work. 

Through constructive mental action, civilization 
gradually arose. Creating and sustaining throughout 
mean's evolution a ceaseless influx of new device and 
invention, that same principle has forced all industry 

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up to what it is to-day. Without invention, no civiHza- 
tion! 

The true employer of both capital and labor has 
always been, is now, and will remain invention. 

In the progress of invention, in thorough organiza- 
tion, and worthy recognition of the most important class 
of all human beings, lie the means of redemption and 
complete emancipation of mankind. 

Capital is organized. Labor is organized. Inven- 
tion is not. When the latter shall have undergone the 
ppcess of organization and been made the basic factor 
in a true industrial **trinity system," for the good 
of all, we shall see how logically God's finger of jus- 
tice will point out true ways, means and methods of 
distribution, encircling the earth, reaching even the 
humblest ones of our race. 

We shall see how woman, fully enfranchised, will, 
by force of her own intelligence and virtue raise the 
morals of mankind to heights yet undreamed of. 

Hideous, disgraceful child labor shall then fade 
away into misty darkness whence it came. 

We shall see how the countless multitudes of little 
suffering children, shall be lifted up into their own, 
where unnecessary, agonizing and abusive conditions 
shall no more prevail. 

The question arises, what is there to be done? 
How could such a **trinity system" be tested and 
demonstrated ? 

Form an industrial society, which will embrace three 
factors rather than two, a society so organized that the 
element of invention and inventors become basic — 
then capital and labor in due succession, with such 
classification and regimentation as will be found else- 
where outlined within these pages. 

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The introduction of such a society cannot be revolu- 
tionary, in a sanguinary sense, it can interfere in no 
way with existing law and order. 

It must simply establish a new system of industry, 
in which different modes of operation will permit wage- 
earners to practically become owners, without embar- 
rassing the incentive now underlying great individual 
business skill and enterprise. Only gradually will the 
motive change in character, and in proportion as a 
more righteous economic principle becomes obvious, a 
loftier incentive will be unfolded. 



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CHAPTER II. 

One of the principal demands of socialism is that the 
government shall buy up or secure all existing means of 
production and distribution; in other words, all ma- 
chinery, tools and facilities of every description, and all 
land so that all in common may own it. 

But governments, so far, seems to have had more 
than hands full in operating and regulating a mere few 
of the larger affairs — railroads, telegraph, post office, 
etc., and, certainly, none of these can be said to have 
been operated too well; not as well as when under pri- 
vate control, so much is yet to be done to bring them 
up to the point of maximum efficiency, yet some gov- 
ernments have had time enough to prove their efficiency. 

How, therefore, may we ask, would a government 
handle the entire industry of a country — hundreds of 
thousands, millions, in variety? 

To the author's mind, that would require a govern- 
ment trained for the purpose, nay, grown up with each 
and every industry itself, and such a training is im- 
possible under the present system; new methods, there- 
fore, are required. 

By degree only, beginning at the bottom of affairs, 
salvation becomes visible, not by a sudden deluge of 
millions of widely different affairs thrust into the keep- 
ing of old- fashioned government supervision. 

Let us assume, however, that socialism were to- 
morrow to take over the country's means of production, 
and that gradually the new government succeeded in a 
method of distribution better than under the old regime, 
what about the continual influx of innovations in our 
rather new world? 

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If invention, discovery and original construction in 
general had spoken its last w^ord; if all progress were 
at an end; if nothing new could henceforth be added 
to existing things; if industrial evolution were finished, 
and man had reached the day when there should be 
nothing more to accomplish one way or the other, ex- 
cept to regulate that which existed, it would seem that 
tliis demand would be more justified, for with safety 
all might then be given the share due them, and all 
might work for the common welfare of the state; there 
would be no upsetting of finished conditions by new 
innovations of revolutionary inventions and discoveries, 
which are always more or less disturbing to existing 
conditions whenever they appear. 

But, the brains of man are as yet but slightly de- 
veloped — so declares science — and one might as well 
try to root up Mt. Everest and plant it in the seas as 
to try to stem the human mind in its flight of research 
and constructiveness, hence a state finished can never 
be reahzed; that idea is more than Utopian; man must 
forever face imperfected conditions and surround- 
ings upon this earth. 

What must and can be done, however, is to bring 
about the inauguration of a system for the proper re- 
ception, introduction and exploitation of the new ideas, 
invention, scientific discovery, etc., as quickly and as 
steadily as they arrive, and then attend to a proper 
method of distribution. 

Thus it would seem that the doctrine of socialism 
has excluded the most vital principle underlying all 
existence by ignoring, or failing to provide for, the end- 
less process of change, the process, which carries with 
it all the new that sweeps aside the old, the process 

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which originates in heaven and will be found irresis- 
tible upon earth. 

According to Henri Bergson, the entire universe is 
forever changing, recreating itself. And this must in- 
clude all earthly activity. 

Socialism has assumed, mainly, too deal only with 
established conditions. 

It is true that this otherwise noble and well mean- 
ing theory vaguely refers to individual * 'achievement,'* 
and suggests some sort of reward together with the 
glory due such individuals, etc., but the great Ferdin- 
and Lasalle, Carl Marx and other exponents of the 
doctrine singularly failed to see the ever changing, al- 
ways renewed world, renewed industry, new bom 
conditions and the agencies fundamentally involved in 
those changes; they saw but the insignificant individ- 
uals as cause of the changes and off-handedly disposed 
of them without programme in their doctrines, instead 
of recognizing a numerous class of men and women, 
forever engaged in the reconstruction of world, a class 
now numbered by the millions and which, in the ful- 
fillment of time, will be counted by the hundreds of 
millions, because the evolutionary spirit of mankind 
insists upon the new, always lifting toward a higher 
intellectual state of mankind where may finally domi- 
nate human achievement, art, philosophy, religion, 
science and invention in their loftiest expressions. 

True it is that socialism, in some countries, has com- 
pelled certain minor reforms for the benefit of workers; 
it has been a long struggle, however, before any degree 
of recognition was obtained. 

But although labor has thus, in a measure, obtained 
a hearing by the continuous demands of socialism, the 
result does not correspond to the universal agitation of 

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more than half a century, and for this there must be a 
reason. 

The eminent founders of the doctrine had their 
minds fixed first and last upon the **rights of labor,'* 
also upon that of ** capital," with little or no concern 
as to the future of the creative workers. 

Since society consists of various main classes, did not 
the founders of sociahsm begin at the wrong end in 
dealing first so conspicuously with the proletariat that, 
in the scale of economic importance, stands as class 
number three, not as number one? 

If number one is the producing class, in reality, and 
the employer of both capital and labor, which no one 
can reasonably deny, labor, rather than misguiding 
itself under the term **producers," should frankly ad- 
mit that its position is simply that of reproducers, its 
function that of — reproducing in numbers the inven- 
tors product. 

There is time, however, to reorganize all classes, 
beginning with the fountain head from which all real 
production flows. 

The rearranging of the classes such as labor, from 
the order of number one to that of number three, etc., 
should, by no means, be considered a depreciation of 
the importance and status of dignity of this greatest 
of all classes, but should be seen in the hght of a 
necessity, in order to correct and make strong the foun- 
dation of our social structure. 

Instead of wasting centuries, perhaps, proclaiming 
labor's rights and interests without obtaining greater 
results than petty reforms, why not rearrange factors 
for a change? The definite object, of course, being 
the very one that socialism has, seemingly, failed to ac- 

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complish: full emancipation of the laboring masses, 
as well as the classes. 

More could be accomplished, we believe, in two 
decades for all humanity, than what has been done 
during the last two hundred years. 

Nor would it be too soon to establish systematic 
protection for all the individuals comprising the crea- 
tive class, for notoriously unprotected have they stood, 
throughout the ages even less so than the ordinary 
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CHAPTER III. 

History teems with abject poverty, ridicule, derision, 
abuses of every description, often inglorious death for 
the world's greatest benefactors. 

Let government and society readjust their attitudes 
over for this ever increasing and most important ele- 
ment of all mankind, and learn to appreciate the mean- 
ing of invention's mission upon earth; let great capital- 
ists exercise their generosity by giving impulse to the 
establishment of systematic channels for the outlet of 
the inventor's product, and proper recognition and 
compensation for the creative individual. 

Let the spring of wealth become wide open, and 
let its current flow freely into all the masses and classes, 
affluence and freedom from slavery will follow. This, 
however, requires first of all organizations among the 
creative workers, and then co-operation with capital 
and labor. 

But here we face the fact that the process of or- 
ganization is not even half-way ripe; and one-half of 
splendid order, with another half of utter chaos can- 
not work well together, and hence the necessity, for 
the peace and common good of the world, of complete 
organization of the element of invention, so that co- 
operation not partly, but thoroughly, may be estab- 
lished among the three factors. 

Inventors as a class have for ages been looked upon 
as a "peculiar" element of individuals that knew little 
or nothing about "business," etc., for which reason 
they have frequently been taken advantage of. 

Honor and glory of man is good, especially when 
well earned, but it is to be remembered also that the 

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man who creates an invention that becomes fundament- 
al or auxiliary to an industry, enriches the employer and 
furnishes a livelihood for perhaps a thousand em- 
ployees, is undoubtedly worthy of his share in full of 
all the earnings, although, under present conditions, 
ninety-nine out of a hundred inventors get a crumb in 
reward, and the lofty title of *'inventt>r" has become 
synonymous, almost, to the word poverty. 

Create he must, however, and the creative mind that 
loves work concerns itself but little with glory. Fre- 
quently he works when others sleep, impelled by a far 
deeper craving than for mere applause, realizing that 
something demands the attention of his mind; that the 
meaning of it all, mysterious though it be, is to aid civ- 
ilization ; and, driven by the wisdom of the universe, he 
works perhaps more than for himself, for the sake of 
truth, for his fellow beings, for God ! 

But while money and honor to such a worker is of 
second consideration only; still, for the protection of 
all in his category, for the sake of all the world, sys- 
tem IS required. 

With irresistible force science and invention have 
broken in upon the scene of the world against every 
odd in every age. 

The march of invention will tolerate no interfer- 
ence; no power can stop its progress, for the very 
ascent of man depends upon it and is proportional to 
its evolution, and the foundation duty of mankind 
is to so regulate things as to secure material well-being 
for all, too little for none, and hence must be mar- 
shalled accordingly, all economic values into order. 

The ultra destiny which lies beyond material ex- 
istence, for which we are now preparing, is being 

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mysteriously, strangely facilitated by invention — if we 
grasp the meaning. 

Invention should be encouraged, promoted to the 
utmost and at any cost. 

Some may ask **what will be the end of inven- 
tion?" and the answer is plain, for until man's exis- 
tence here shall have been closed; until the last deed 
of history shall have been recorded, there is to be no 
end to invention. Invention destroys invention. 

Higher and higher soar the inventor's ideals, al- 
ways for greater perfection, much as in the do- 
mains of Fauna and Flora, where lower species, 
through extinction, have always given place for higher 
ones. 

Invention is the lifting lever of the human race. 

Domination of capital in time will cease. AH 
present forms of physical labor will cease, and, through 
invention, be banished from the face of the earth, while 
the constructive mind of man will live, and raise all 
humanity to the highest moral, mental and spiritual 
altitudes. 

With this ever increasing influx of invention, gen- 
eration after generation live and work under a con- 
tinuously changing panorama of thoughts, materialized 
into new device, apparatus, machinery and contrivance 
in the infinite. 

Provide for these eternal changes in industry, com- 
merce, trade and professions and all other vocations, 
and much will have been accomplished for the peace 
of the world. 

It is safe to say that within fifty years from now 
there will have been created so many new inventions, 
facilities and improvements of every kind, that, if 
they could all be gradually added to existing industry, 

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the world would be richer, all have permanent employ- 
ment, while old means of production die giving place 
for the new ones. 

Nothing of the old is to remain, in a material sense 
of the word. All must come and go. 

Without any plan whatever for systematic purchase 
and introduction of new creations or conmiodities ; no 
plan for organized co-operation with the inventive 
element; no plan at all for just treatment and protec- 
tion of the creative class, what will society in the mean- 
time do with an army numbering many millions of 
these original producers? 

It is not so much a question of how to pay or 
honor a comparatively few of the very great geniuses 
whose work hterally change conditions; their inventions 
are simply priceless. But there are hundreds of thou- 
sands of lesser lights, and millions of still smaller, but 
exceedingly useful, inventors, who constantly create 
accessory inventions wherever needed, auxiharies by 
the millions. 

Will society continue the old practice, as under 
present conditions, to allow individual exploitation of 
the individual inventor to flourish? Will only one out 
of a hundred inventions continue to be the "success- 
ful" one? Are the ninety-nine inventors to be allowed 
to stand helpless with their products, which is wealth, 
unable to place it on the market for the good of them- 
selves and the world? Or what? 

What shall be done for this ever increasing gifted 
class of human beings? 

Invention, from the greatest to the smallest, as a dis- 
tinct economic element, constitutes the entire basis of 
all industry. 

Is it not plain that here is where organization, classi- 

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fication and fixed methods of compensation are, first 
of all, needed? 

This great intelHgent body of ceaseless toilers must 
first be taken seriously into consideration, and dealt 
with squarely, for everyone should know that they are 
the creators of all commercial values, the true founders 
and supportors of universal industry. 

After this truth be recognized, promoters, individuals 
or class, may properly concern themselves to any extent 
with the problems of distribution. 

Meantime, it seems rather inconsistent for politicians, 
writers and reformers to advocate their respective plans 
and ideas as to how the wealth of the world, created 
by others, by a class they never mention in their argu- 
ments, should be distributed. 

The world of industry must come to realize first, 
that every conmiodity thus originally produced should 
be justly and systematically absorbed into its repro- 
ducing faciHties (advanced invention), factories and 
plants of every discription, before capital and labor can 
have the right to employment by way of reproduction. 

This means that nothing short of perfect co-opera- 
tion will have to be established, not merely between 
employer and employees, but among the three powers: 
invention, capital and labor. 

Invention is nourishment for industry; industry is 
food for commerce. 

To point the way and outline the methods applica- 
ble in the construction of such a co-operative system 
is one of the main objects of this volume. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

In the fore-going pages, the element of invention 
may seem, perhaps, rather one-sidedly dwelt upon, and 
that because of its close relation to science, the latter 
might have been treated as a factor co-existent and 
more closely interwoven with invention, and to what- 
ever extent this may be the case will, therefore, be 
briefly dealt with in the following chapters. 

No one can be more grateful to science than is the 
author; but, observed from a purely economic stand- 
point, as a direct working principle, the importance of 
invention, conceived as a broad economic factor, can- 
not be too strongly emphasized. And since the aim 
of the writer is to unveil and establish a great neglected 
truth, invention's definite place as number one, in the 
order of basic elements, cannot be too clearly set forth. 

Man's first activity above the animal world was to 
invent simple device — but great then — his remote ten- 
dencies to invent are the origin of all modern life and 
culture. 

Science is a corollary to the premises of invention, 
and, for the sake of simplicity, must temporarily be 
marshalled in line with the fine arts, though its in- 
trinsic and economic value be immeasurably greater 
than that of the latter. 

Hence let it here be remembered that in humanity's 
early dawn, there was no science. 

Invention, however, as stated, manifested itself, 
though in the crudest of expressions, in life's remotest 
morning, and became then what it has been ever since; 
the foundation rock upon which the structure of civili- 
zation was gradually erected. 

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Science, the beautiful arts, professions and trades 
were subsequently evolved and, by degrees, came into 
the world, facilitated by and borne upon the wings of 
invention. 

Again, in the language of the great philosopher, 
Henri Bergson, whose law applies also to this truth, 
'*the present contains nothing more than the past, and 
what is found in the effect was already in the cause." 

It has been granted already that numerous other 
elements enter into co-operation with invention, capital 
and labor; they are logical ramifications of the three, 
resulting in trades and many other classes of workers; 
their economic importance decreases as their remoteness 
from the basic values increases. 

The initial consideration in any undertaking is to be 
satisfied that the start is right; if it be wrong, there 
are difficulties ahead. This is equally true in the 
world's industry. There is a main cause for all the 
social and industrial difficulties; the start was not right; 
the foundation is insecure and faulty. 

Let it be a "skyscraper" or a hut, a mill or a rail- 
road, a pencil or a steamship, a needle or a printing 
press, one thing is positively required in the construc- 
tion of them all — a correct beginning, the rest is com- 
paratively easy. 

Human society can never be more than a miserable 
mixture of abject poverty, superfluous riches, justice and 
injustice before the errors in its foundation shall have 
been corrected. 

Now, if the element of invention is truthfully the 
fountain head, the main source from which all earthly 
wealth flows, how can there be anything but infinite 
troubles and difficulties in society while this great truth 
be consciously or unconsciously suppressed? 

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It will have to be admitted or denied, proved false 
or true, before either labor or capital, or both of them 
combined, can be justly considered the sourse of 
wealth, and if this third, slighted, overlooked and al- 
most forgotten factor, as a great principle, is really the 
basis of all human producing powers, it should not 
have to go begging, for until properly conceived in 
its true nature, the world's progress will be on a wrong 
track; we shall continue the struggle against the tides. 

Doubtless, there are those who at first will question 
the correctness of the ideas here set forth, and for their 
benefit, the writer will endeavor to illustrate briefly by 
way of example the entire truth of his convictions. 

For this purpose, he has deemed it unnecessary to 
let the reader travel back through the bronze and stone 
ages, for those earlier civilizations were obviously 
founded upon the same principle; they had grown out 
of man's inherent ability to invent and devise crude 
forms of tools and facilities which enabled the primi- 
tive people to fight and overcome nature as necessities 
demanded. 

It is evident that without even the crudest inven- 
tions, man should have had absolutely no means with 
which to make his departure away from animal exis- 
tence. 

Though the principle of invention is reflected 
throughout nature millions of years before man ap- 
peared upon earth and in such myriads of forms that it 
cannot, to any appreciable extent, be dilated upon 
here; and though animals and insects, microbes and 
even smaller forms of life have always possessed won- 
drous tools and device attached to, or literally grown 
out from their bodies with which to accomplish their 
ends for support of life within their realm of existence, 

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formidable defense against enemies; etc., invention, as 
we conceive the meaning of the word, however, can- 
not be said to have become really applied or made 
effective until the arrival of man. 

Otherwise, one might, with good reason, trace the 
inventive spirit back to ages even before the arrival of 
animal forms upon earth. 

This forces man to admit that behind all stands the 
master inventor of the universe, sometimes called God, 
at other times Creator, but at all times remains the 
same creative, inventive and constructive spirit (elec- 
trons) of the infinite that forever and ever, from the 
lowest to the highest of all forms of existence is operat- 
ing, moulding matter — in turn created by the same 
spirit (electrons) — into existence of infinite numbers of 
types, organic, and inorganic, necessary for wonderful 
purposes in creative direction. 

Thus, when forms or types of life disappear, it is 
as if the infinite Creator simply threw aside one of his 
working models that had filled its purpose or was con- 
sidered faulty, unnecessary and, therefore, destroyed, 
the material to be used in the construction of other 
types, which process, in turn, emphasizes clearly the 
truth, that there is no such a thing as a destructive 
process directly opposed to the process of construction, 
and hence, what is commonly termed destruction is, 
in the last analysis, nothing but a part of the con- 
structive process at large, which, at times, requires that 
certain integral parts of the whole be separated, re- 
placed, and reorganized, in order to reappear for higher 
service and greater efficiency. 

Invention has never been more fundamental in in- 
dustry than it is in our modern civilization. 

It should be unnecessary even to dilate on the early 

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era of our modern civilization, and hence we shall 
point only to some undeniable facts that intimately 
concern industrial evolution fundamentally, in so brief 
a span of time as a single century which will supply 
us with ample exemplification of what has taken place 
in all ages of man's terrestrial existence. 

Strip the world of all the inventions created and 
made operative during the last century; let imagination 
wander, and the reader will find him or herself prac- 
tically in the dark middle ages. 

However, it is better to let them all remain with 
us and try to comprehend the message they have 
brought. 

Let us begin with the greatest one of all the inven- 
tions that have been fundamentally operative in a hun- 
dred thousand directions since its quiet distinguished 
inventor turned it over to the service of man. 

It is James Watt's steam-engine we refer to. This 
sounds dry, it is admitted — merely an ordinary steam 
engine. But who is he, after all, that can see noth- 
ing but iron and steel in so beautiful a creation of man 
as that splendid system of mechanical ideas? 

Very few indeed, comparatively speaking, have ever 
fully contemplated what this one invention really means. 

Imagine for a moment millions upon millions of 
horsepower constantly developed throughout the 
world's industry in hundreds of thousands, nay, mil- 
lions of factories, ship-yards and steamships, upon the 
high seas and in the harbors of the world; in the pow- 
erful navies of the nations, in cities, country towns, 
villages and hamlets above and underneath the ground 
where hundreds of thousands of railroad cars and 
trains are being dashed along upon thousands of thou- 
sands of miles of tracks by scores of thousands of gi- 

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gantic steam-locomotives; think of the thousands of 
mines, docks and mills, elevators, etc., think of a mil- 
lion dynamoes through which steam converts its power 
into electricity, and in turn into hundreds of millions 
of electric hghts and a thousand other applications of 
this wonderful invention. 

Where is the mathematician who could even approx- 
imately estimate or compute its tremendous value, or 
say how many millions of ordinary lives is worth one 
such as that of James Watt? 

Incidently, let it be remembered, that invention, 
more forcefully than conferences, will finally establish 
peace, for all that is needed for the fulfilment of that 
exalted aim, is intimate intermingling of Nations and 
languages, through which intercourse, the factions of 
men called nations will melt together in a thorough 
understanding of the one fact that the interests of one 
nation are identical to those of another; that the great 
moral point involved is not that of a single nation, but 
is the cause of humanity. 

Invention alone can thus promote the coming to- 
gether of mankind; this has been demonstrated. The 
earth is our native land. 

Again, without the wonderful invention of thie 
electric telegraph, we should be unable to communi- 
cate our messages by electricity thousands upon thou- 
sands of miles in a few minutes, not to speak of the 
human voice by the same force over the telephone. 

Wireless telegraphy is an instance showing how in- 
vention gradually or suddenly destroys invention, the 
improved idea supercedes the old, as already referred 
to. 

One might write for days, pointing out one inven- 
tion after another that have added to the world's in- 

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dustry thousands of great enterprises in so short a period 
as one century. 

We see to-day our great telegraph companies, earn- 
ing hundreds of millions of dollars, employing numbers 
of smaller industries and millions of men the world 
over, and all on the basis of what one man did, for 
without the inventor of the telegraph, these rich and 
powerful companies would not exist. 

Where would be to-day all the great telephone com- 
panies, with their billions of dollars, extracted from that 
invention without the original inventor? 

The same argument is sound for every invention of 
greater or lesser importance that was ever made opera- 
live. 

Indeed, wherever chimneys smoke and wheels are 
spinning, and a hundred times as many, though more 
or less obscure places, where neither chimneys smoke 
nor signs are seen, some idea is being reproduced; 
some individual's idea being copied in numbers; i. e., 
manufactured. 

It may be, perhaps, a new button of greater merit 
than the old kind; it may be an improved pin, a hook- 
and-eye; a needle, a pair of pinchers, or a lemon 
squeezer; it may be an improved monkey-wrench, a 
screw-driver, an improved screw or a bottle stopper; 
perhaps an ink-stand, a key-ring, an improved match or 
a cork-screw, and so on into the millions of ideas. 

And from this humble, but great class, of universally 
manufactured improvements to that of ** sky-scrapers," 
bridges, battle-ships, submarine boats, air-ships, ocean- 
cables, heavy ordnance, etc. 

But, between these tw^o extremes, let us not forget 
the millions of mediocre inventions of different classes, 

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and more or less of basic value for new industries, or 
auxiliaries for greater efficiency of old ones. 

Some will argue that a ** sky-scraper" or a bridge, 
for example, cannot be called inventions. 

True enough, for such manifestations of human en- 
deavor, skill and constructiveness are no more, no 
less, than whole congregations of inventions, put into 
organic state, so to speak, and, as if they were actually 
co-operating to one end, thus, collectively, giving us the 
''wonders" of the world. 

The wonders consists of inventions directly or in- 
directly; from a nail, new or old, to the most complex 
machinery involved; the entire bulk of material, iron, 
wood or stone, of which the structure, bridge or steam- 
ship consist being applicable only as a result of work 
done by other inventions which fashioned the shape of 
the steel beams, bolts, etc., or planed and grooved the 
wooden materials and levelled the stone. 

Others will say that natural products are not in- 
ventions, and that inventions cannot be basic in such 
industries; this sounds correct, more so than it really 
is, for It is not difficult to show that the view is incor- 
rect. 

While oil, for example, is contained in the earth, 
the oil industry itself is from beginning to end abso- 
lutely dependent upon inventions. 

Here are required boring implements, pipe lines 
with their accessories, refining apparatus, etc., not to- 
forget the transportation means of the product, with- 
out all of which such an industry could have no evolu- 
tion. 

We are praising our rich m.ines, rejoicing in the 
precious treasures they yield, but pay little attention 
ordinarily to the fact that, though one might own moun- 

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tains of the richest ore, a wilderness full of gold-mines, 
they would be of no value to man but for the inven- 
tions of all the mining machinery that makes the ex- 
traction of the products from the mines possible. 

It is commonly assumed, also, that the basis of life 
here is to be found in agriculture; in other words, the 
farming class is supposed to be the real ** back-bone" 
of existence; without that class of producers, humanity 
would starve to death. 

This held good in the stone age, but not now. 

When mankind lived a savage existence in the re- 
mote past, the only implements for agricultural uses 
were man's fingers; even a crude spade did not exist, 
and all work vv^as done by hand. 

Such an existence continued throughout centuries 
until the first wooden spade (a great invention), as 
well as the crudest wooden plow, etc., had appeared 
upon the scene of action. 

But in subsequent ages, especially with a humanity 
many times multiplied and constantly increasing, even 
with the aid of scientific methods, it would be utterly 
impossible for this class to adequately supply mankind 
with life's necessities, without the innovation of agri- 
culture machinery. 

Here come the inventions of reapers, thrashing ma- 
chines, the modern plow and numerous other farming 
impliments, while the scientific methods themselves have 
been made possible also through invention, showing 
conclusively that it matters little what may be the na- 
ture of man's activity, invention is basic, if not di- 
rectly, then indirectly, in all human affairs. 

More than any other class, the farmers are truly de- 
pendent upon the work of the inventor. 

This should suffice as a brief illustration of the fun- 
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damental role played by invention so far as all neces- 
sary work and endeavor is concerned. 

For the luxurious side of life, involving palaces full 
of endless comfort, including the choicest articles of 
the furniture manufacturer's skill, it shall only be said 
that, if some of it does not spell invention directly, it 
certainly does indirectly, as obvious products of other 
inventions. 

Finally, just a word for the educational invention, 
a class of device which exercise a double function. 

In common with the other classes they employ both 
capital and labor; but their main importance or mis- 
sion is that of eminently promoting universal education. 

Who could ever estimate the uplifting value of the 
printing press? It was this one invention that raised 
out of the dark ages all humanity. 

Did it ever occur to the reader that without it, the 
world at large might never have knov/n Shakespeare, 
Milton, Dante, Homer, Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Hugo, 
Moliere, Holdberg, Bjornson, Ibson, Longfellow, 
Edgar Allen Poe and hundreds of equally great poets, 
writers and educators? 

Did it ever occur to the reader that for ages, per- 
haps, the world might not have known many of the 
great divines? 

That wonderful sermons would not now be part 
of our libraries? 

That the great work of the great Lineus might not 
now tell us the story of the world of flowers. 

That the sermon on the Mount would not be read 
in our homes 

Where to-day in the humblest home the great daily 
press of the world is imparting knowledge and uni- 
versal enlightenment, there would be nothing but me- 

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diaeval gloom. Who could ever estimate the loss to 
all mankind if that invention had not come to us? 
Who could overrate the blessings it brought? 

Though it would be easy to continue along the 
same lines, citing tens of thousands of instances, each 
one of which would further illuminate the great under- 
lying truth of conditions as they are, the writer prefers 
to submit the hints here presented to intelligent readers, 
feeling confident they will be quite able to proceed 
further in this given direction. 

Believing that it has been shown that not only does 
the manufacturing world rest upon the basis of inven- 
tion, but also all natural product industries, and, in 
great measure, even education, there remains but one 
argument for those who may disagree. 

That argument is old enough. It holds that all 
wealth is obtained from the earth itself; the planet is 
the source of everything. 

Why not go further back, and admit that the globe 
itself came into existence from a source still more re- 
mote? 

No, here we must stop, or we shall have to find the 
very beginning of the beginning of things. That would 
take us back again into the world of electrons. 

The truth is that life itself and the earth we live 
upon are two things created over which no mortal had 
the slightest degree of control; both were generously 
placed in space for the profoundest purpose by the Al- 
mighty Creator. 

If our planet were a hundred times greater and 
richer than it is, it would make no difference whatever 
in the working out of man's salvation, without the 
ever active inventive principle which generates inven- 
tion. 

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The so-called "successful" inventor is one out of 
a hundred; and his success is frequently due, rather 
to an accident or **good luck," if you please, than to 
plan, which means that somehow or other he succeeded 
in getting a so-called ''backer.** His "good luck'* in 
that respect was due, perhaps, to some sort of a social 
connection ; may be it was an opportune acquaintance ; 
possibly an introduction to some capitalist ; he may even 
have persuaded a stranger to "take an interest**; or, 
under special environment his experimenting became 
noticed, etc. 

Seldom, however, does he succeed at once; most 
frequently valuable years are lost in efforts at com- 
mercializing his product; rarely does it happen through 
friendship. 

The inventor is not noted for having many friends 
while he is struggling; he is a "law unto himself,** and 
while absorbed in the working out of his idea has lit- 
tle or no time for the cultivation of friendship. Most 
frequently he is poor. Unable, like anybody else, 
to do justice to more than one thing at a time, he suf- 
fers all kinds of hardships while giving his energy to 
his idea, often neglecting regular occupation for a 
livelihood, convinced that he will do something worth 
while. 

If it so happens, besides, that he is a man of family, 
responsible for a wife and several children, perhaps, 
few can imagine what such a man is doomed to en- 
dure before "success** comes to him. 

Still he cannot stop; create he must; his ambition 
leads him ; his aim is of the noblest kind. While study- 
ing, planning, thinking, experimenting in obscurity, 
he grows poorer and poorer; he is in debt, has per- 
haps borrowed money from friend and foe, all staked 

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upon faith in himself. This may not be the rule, but 
is most frequently the case. 

The hour arrives when his idea is an invention, a 
realization — ^but he finds that now he does not con- 
trol his invention. 

In order to finish his work it was necessary for 
him to "assign," or make promises in advance, an in- 
terest here, another there, for which he received, com- 
paratively speaking, nothing. 

Something, however, comes to him, and he is happy. 
This is our ordinary, * 'successful" inventor. 

In the class of average "successful" inventors, how- 
ever, are not counted those who create the myriads of 
minor, though useful, articles. 

Nor is counted among them the comparatively few 
who manage to retain control over their work, and then 
become rich and famous; but the great class between 
these two extremes, whose work is of average indus- 
trial importance. 

Then, how with the "unsuccessful" inventor? 

How about the ninety-nine out of each hundred 
who do not succeed in finding a "backer?" 

Undoubtedly, the world is continuously sustaining 
the most stupendous losses simply because of the dif- 
ficulty the inventor experiences in finding a proper 
and ready outlet for his product. 

The world would be to-day five thousand times 
richer than it is if all the creative wealth offered 
through all ages could have been accepted; civiliza- 
tion many times greater. 

What of all these if a proper chance were offered 
them? 

As it is, not much is heard of the man who works 

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in a cellar, dies in the attic and is buried, perhaps, in 
the Potter's Field. 

He worked, lived and died alone without ever 
seeing the fruits of his labor. 

Nevertheless, from blackest savagery to the present 
day, inventors constitute the original class of workers 
that have constantly made smoother the path of life for 
their sisters and brothers and Hghtened their burden. 

Humanity does not even begin to realize the debt 
of gratitude it owes them, but it would seem about 
time to find means and methods for the recognition and 
reward to which they are justly entitled. 

Hence let the army of inventors that in ages past 
labored and died in obscurity, with little or no thanks 
for their work, rest in peace, but let system replace 
chaos soon, so that those that are here working now 
may receive more just treatment, and the millions that 
are still to come be so received and their work so 
provided for that it may hence forth reflect credit upon 
the world, not disgrace, as in the past. 



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CHAPTER V 

Many attempts at great reforms have been made 
during the last century at various times and places. 
Friends would meet on common ground; i. e., have 
social views alike, and organize their community — co- 
operation and **simple life'* being the slogan. 

None of these colonies seem to have flourished great- 
ly, however, and the explanation is simple enough. 

Their basic industry would as a rule be that of 
agriculture, which in itself involves no other source of 
wealth than that comm.on to agriculture in general, their 
regulations, methods of distribution and co-operation 
being such as the members themselves would agree 
upon to follow remaining then the only difference be- 
tween such a colony and society at large. 

Discontentment of some of the members of such 
colonies, and the growing underhanded work of 
cliques in nearly every case started the process of fer- 
mentation — dissolution. 

Such a "new" undertaking, despite good inten- 
tions has always seemed in the eyes of the writer equal 
to that of putting *'a new patch upon an old garment." 

Whatever may be the nature, motive or aim of a 
reform involving the welfare of all, one thing is cer- 
tain, it cannot be successfully brought about by a few 
moving away from the scenes of troubles, locating far 
from civilization in some ideal valley, mountain-fast- 
ness or field, and then expect to develop into such a 
model of a social state that the whole world should 
finally benefit by the example. 

No reform is meritorious unless beneficial results are 
effected where the masses are suffering the keenest. 

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Not by the few moving away from misery can there 
be any great hope or much expected; by the many or 
all facing it, moved by united effort and purpose, real 
result can be obtained. 

Not by means of bayonets, guns and sanguinary rev- 
olutions will mankind evolve into its higher ideal ex- 
istence; not by continuous tearing down and abuse 
of certain classes or individuals, nor by perfidy and 
condemnation of all existing institutions and religions, 
while by the intelligent use and support of all the good 
that actually does exist, reaching out for yet greater 
improvements, worthy results may be achieved. 

The fact, for example, that religion has not, so far, 
enlightened the world sufficiently to comprehend fully 
the past, present and the future; the meaning of life, 
death and eternity, does not entitle anyone to abuse 
his fellow's religion ; for with earnest endeavor to under- 
stand and appreciate that which is; and with addi- 
tional truths yet to be unveiled— given us from the 
same source whence comes all truth — it is right that 
patience and toleration should everywhere prevail 
while the search is going on. 

It has already been stated that science is a corollary 
of invention; a fact which may, perhaps, not be so 
readily admitted by many; and certain it is that, in 
numerous instances, it appears to be precisely the re- 
verse; for many of the most revolutionary inventions 
are plainly made possible only by the scientific prin- 
ciple involved. This is true, so far as it goes, but it 
is invaribly in cases more or less isolated where this 
becomes conspicuous; it is the exception, not the rule, 
and the argument is untenable in a general sense when 
the economic importance of invention is under con- 
sideration; and the fact that numerous inventions are 

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really made possible only on the basis of scientific 
discovery does not alter the truth that invention origin- 
ally was, and as a whole is, fundamental. 

For it must be admitted that if the inventor takes 
advantage of scientific discovery, in order to utilize 
the same in his invention, it is equally true that the 
scientist would stand helpless in most instances if he 
did not have the advantage of previous invention all 
about him so as to make possible his discovery. 

Thus — Hans Christian Oersted discovered electro- 
magnatism. 

Morse employed the discovery in his invention of 
thp telegraph. 

Without Oersted's work, Morse could not have 
made his invention, and Oersted could not have made 
his discovery without existing invention — battery, mag- 
net-needle, etc. So, by following the same hne of 
argument, it will be seen that in the last analysis, 
the inventor's work is always basic. This, beside the 
fact that the inventor is frequently a scientist himself, 
as also the scientist may be an inventor, should leave 
no room for jealousy where there is no question of 
actual supermacy, but where the object aimed at is to 
establish a fundamental truth of vital interest to all. 

Capital, labor, art, literature, stage, and all pro- 
fessions have unions, societies, clubs and general or- 
ganizations; all their respective interests are thus be- 
ing properly guarded. 

The author pleads for thorough organization of in- 
vention. 

That such an organization would not merely be 
for the benefit of the inventive or creative element can 
easily be shown, for, in truth, it would have results 
of so all permeating a nature that the future alone, 

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would be able to realize what in reality had taken 
place. 

In the world of industry, invention is the dominant 
element of three economic factors; and in the world of 
commerce which, in turn, is a corollary of industry, 
the dominant element is again manifested in tens of 
thousands of less important, but very useful, minor in- 
ventions that in every branch of commerce lend greater 
efficency to commercial activity. 

Further than that, the dominant element of inven- 
tion projects itself beyond both industry and commerce 
into the field of scientific research, literature, art, pro- 
fessions, etc. 

Threfore, it will easily be seen that if a given dom- 
inant power, in whatever case it may be, were to be 
excluded, or itself scattered, it would be unable to 
lend its supporting properties to the entire series, ex- 
cept in a fragmentary way. 

Such a scattered, or rather disconnected element, 
is invention to-day, for in a fragmentary, haphazard 
way only it is brought into action as a factor; and 
hence most of all the social disturbances. 

Unite inventors and inventions with capital and 
with labor, in one co-operative embrace, with profit 
sharing features, and a far greater measure of tran- 
quility will undoubtedly be the result; a richer world, 
permanent employment for all, and ready outlet for 
inventions. 

In further illustration of this, if we do not lose sight 
of the fact, already called attention to, that invention 
is the true employer of both capital and labor, it will 
be understood that the stronger the employer, i. e., the 
larger his plant or facilities for work is, the greater 
the number of workers required ; which is equal to say- 

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ing that if double as many inventions, for example, 
than is at present being reproduced and operated in 
the world's industry, were now to be brought into 
action, in rapid succession, double as many workers 
as are at present employed would be required for the 
work to be done by thus doubling the world's activity. 

Invention employs every government official and 
public servant from the lowest to the highest. 

This, it is admitted, may sound a trifle far-fetched 
but is true, nevertheless. For new inventions create 
new conditions, and new conditions demand new 
legislation, which, in consequence, keep busy the 
courts, from the lowest to the supreme court of the 
United States. 

The automobile is an invention in point which will 
be testified to by judges and juries of all courts. 

In the wake of telephone, telegraph, wireless, rail- 
roads and steamships follow national and international 
legislation and so with all other inventions. 

Now, when it is considered that inventors are found 
in every country and clime, in great and small cities, 
in towns, hamlets and villages, but that a very small 
percentage of them only get a chance, the tremendous 
loss of wealth continuously sustained by mankind speaks 
loud, indeed. 

It requires but a mediocre invention to measure 
favorably with the value of a good gold mine ; no mine 
can approach in value a great invention. 

Before submitting for the reader's consideration the 
working plan of **the trinity principle in economy,'* the 
writer wishes to call attention to one conspicuous dif- 
ference between this theory — if such it may be called 
— and those of the well-known other theories advanced, 

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such as socialism, single tax, etc., with regard to prac- 
ticability. 

It will be noted that, in the event the plan here so 
briefly presented was made basic for an actual organ- 
ization, there would be no hindrance through loss of 
time in obtaining either government co-operation or 
support in the customary way when new principles are 
advocated. 

The obvious difference referred to is, therefore, 
which will be shown, that the original start, or ex- 
periment, if you like, along the lines of "the trinity 
principle" can be made without marked agitation, 
making its own propaganda without the absorption of 
millions of dollars and scores of years, without the 
necessity of legislation or great solicitation, for, much 
as great religious and philosophical systems having in 
times past originated with individuals, grown in 
strength and popularity, until finally powerful enough 
to absorb, even governments of the civilized 
world, commanding their respect and supoort, so 
to absorb, even governments of the civilized world, 
commanding their respect and support, so could this 
organization if founded, first in a private sense, grow- 
ing rapidly in numbers, enormous wealth and power, 
for the well-being of all its members, develop into a 
creative government complete, like a new world within 
the old. 

And our organization, in the nature of itself, would 
gradually have to establish international branches, 
growing, as it were, from a little seed planted, to a 
great tree, to a government embracing the earth. 

It will be readily understood that the following 
description, diagrammatic illustrations, etc., will be 
rather suggestive in scope than exhaustive, inasmuch 

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as the multitudes of details that of necessity will pre- 
sent themselves might in the first place, easily fill an- 
other volume, and, secondly, they would be of lesser 
interest just at present. 



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Fig. 1 . The various circles at the end of the 
dotted lines indicate industries or factories established 
by the ** Trinity Association." Some will be seen to 
be yet, in a measure, under support of the main treas- 
ury, which is shown by the arrows pointing away 
from it, the accompanying numbers indicating the per- 
centage still below the earning point, while those point- 
ing toward the treasury show what percentage is re- 
turning from those earning a profit; thus a few are seen 
to be returning one-third in full, or 33 per cent, of 
the profit. 



CHAPTER VI. 

To begin with, the whole organization, that is, the 
three factors in co-operation, should be divided into 
three main divisions, 

1 — The society proper, which, for brevity's sake 
will hereafter be referred to as division A. 

2 — The factor of invention, hereafter referred to as 
division B. 

3 — The factor of workers or labor, hereafter re- 
ferred to as division C. 

In a sense, division A will be placed, compara- 
tively, in the position of an employer who buys an 
inventor's patent, after having properly examined by 
experts the invention, calculated costs of manufacture, 
introduction, etc. 

The individual capitalist, however, is generally sub- 
jected to all kinds of expenses; first, the price paid 
for the invention, next the fees to experts, attorneys, 
etc., but if the invention is meritorious, and the buyer 
is a business man, there is little doubt but that the 
invention will be a success, financially, and the owner 
become richer than he was before. 

It will be seen from diagram Fig. 1 , that in the 
center of the increasing circle is situated the government 
of division A, consisting of the head of the organiza- 
tion with a **council of eminence" of four members. 

In circle 2 resides the high council consisting of 
twenty-one members. 

Circle 3 represents the general business heads of 
directors and officers. 

Circle 4 represents managers. 

Circle 5 represents chief clerks. 

Circle 6 represents chief inspectors. 

Circle 7 represents clerical staff. 

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Note that numbers 1 , 2, 3, of the increasing circle 
constitute the higher governing branches of division A, 
while the remaining four embrace respectively also 
members of various functions such as permit classifica- 
tions with managers, chief clerks, chief inspectors, 
clerical staff, etc., and while division A will consist 
of nine classes, the two remaining ones will function 
partly in all three main divisions and are, therefore, 
not shown in the diagram, though properly they will 
be members of division A. 

Assuming that division A had now constituted 
itself and had a membership of, say, three hundred 
for a beginning, the majority of which number being 
members engaged in the ordinary vocations of life, 
including mechanics, merchants, trades-people, pro- 
fessions, manufacturer, etc., from which the official 
forces could be gradually recruited as requirements 
might dictate and, assuming, also, that each member 
is in duty bound to serve a limited number of times 
annually, say from one to three days on each occasion, 
when called upon with due notice, much resembling 
our well-known jury system, we should have estab- 
lished a system that the author has named **the trinity 
call system," and is illustrated in diagram fig. 2, the 
nature of the service thus imposed upon the various 
members would be committee work on the various 
boards of experts, estimate and business, as illustrated 
in diagram fig. 1 . 

It will be seen that, in addition to the three respec- 
tive boards mentioned, there is a legal department and 
a treasury. 

All the larger or smaller circles at the ends of the 
dotted lines, radiating from the treasury department, 
represent factories gradually established by division A. 

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For the sake of simplicity, we will assume that only 
one particular patented invention, of more or less value 
is being manufactured in each place (although there 
might be five or ten different articles or devices turned 
out from the same building), the question arises: How 
did division A secure all the different inventions? 

It is here that co-operation begins between divisions 
A and B. 

Inasmuch as tens of thousands of inventions are 
patented but not operated for lack of capital, the 
patentees or owners of such patents can be dealt with 
in a manner fair and beneficial to them. 

An inventor will thus be invited to appear with his 
invention, patent, etc., at the offices of division A for 
the purpose of discussing possible co-operation. 

Now, let it be assumed that his is an invention or 
device that would fill a want in some given industry, 
say, in the field of machinery, it is plain that division 
A, before entering into co-operative combination with 
the patentee, must first examine into the invention's 
merits, with regard to operativeness, scope of useful- 
ness, etc., which examination could not very well, in 
this instance, be entrusted to merchants or doctors, for 
example, but must be thoroughly examined by engi- 
neers, machinists, etc., hence a call for members, whose 
general vocations are in the machinery or engineering 
lines, to serve, in this patricular case, upon the board 
of experts, as indicated in the diagram fig. 1 , which 
board has a permanent chairman and two members. 

This permanent board will thus be always able to 
surround itself with intelligence, skill, etc., as experts 
from the various fields of activity in which a given 
invention might have the greatest value. 

Should the invention, for instance, be one applicable 

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and useful in the building line, the board will have 
experts called from among members that are pro- 
fessional architects, builders, etc. 

An individual often pays heavily for **expert ad- 
vice," and then loses. 

From the board of experts it is forwarded with 
report from the latter, to the board of '*estimate," also 
consisting of permanent chairman with two other mem- 
bers, and which will, likewise, secure expert opinion 
from the suitable strata of membership, such as ac- 
countants, sales-agents, businessmen in the particular 
field, etc., who will finally pass expert opinion con- 
cerning costs of introduction, manufacture, distribution, 
etc., of the invention, that is, render, approximately, 
an estimate. 

From the board of estimate it is forwarded with 
report of the latter, together with that of the former 
board, to the business board which is constituted as 
are the two others, and whose function will be to pass 
opinion upon steps to be taken for the manufacture or 
reproduction of the invention, with regard to facilities 
required, locality for plant, whether land for factory 
buildings be necessary or not, etc., to which end ex- 
perts are called to serve on this board. 

It is plain that if the board of first instance decides 
that the invention is demeritorious, it is not going to 
either of the two others, but is simply reported upon, 
and the report filed with the general secretary, the 
inventor, however, remaining perfectly eligible for mem- 
zership otherwise. 

If, on the other hand, it passes successfully all three 
boards, which examination process will most frequently 
be of short duration, and more so as experience is 
gained, one report is filed with the general secretary, 

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a second and final report is submitted to the president, 
who, in turn, will instruct the legal department ac- 
cordingly, which department will secure proper assign- 
ment of patents, etc.,. from the inventor or owner to 
division A. 

The terms, considerations, etc., will be made plain 
to the patentee for his acceptance or rejection of be- 
coming a general member of **the Trinity Association" 
at large, and a special member of division B. 

Assuming that the patentee or inventor does become 
a special member of division B, and his invention be 
immediately placed upon the market, and the same 
process takes place in a hundred cases, the hundred 
patentees or inventors wall all belong to division B, be- 
sides of being members in general of the entire **Trinity 
Association," of course there arises a question, how is 
the profit of the various industries to be distributed? 

It is obvious that the hundred industries came into 
existence successively, one after the other, and that 
each particular industry required formanship, superin- 
tendency, etc., which positions would be justly optional 
to the patentees or inventors of the articles involved, of 
whatever variety they might be, although if inventor 
or patentee should not be fitted for such positions, his 
status as member of division B regarding share of proats 
would remain the same. 

In each one of the hundred industries must now be 
engaged a certain number of workers, skilled or un 
skilled, women or men, younger or older persons, and 
for the sake of plainness and easy calculation, let us 
assume that these hundred industries have engaged an 
average each of ten workers. These would be small 
industries, belonging more or less to the kind of in- 
dustries of which millions already exist. 

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The ten workers in each industry constitute division 
C of *'The Trinity Association.'* 

The combined working element of the hundred will 
thus be one thousand, which means, that we have now 
the three main economical factors. A, B, and C, 
where full co-operation should assert itself. 

Division A, the society in itself, being formed and 
is in every way ready for business, possessing sufficient 
capital to secure assignments of patent rights and to 
systematically begin to place them, in rapid succession, 
one after the other, upon the market, it becomes at 
once apparent that provisions must have been made for 
the distribution of the combined profits. 

Not only that, but it is equally obvious that one 
invention may be better than another, in fact, it is 
certain that not even two out of the hundred will earn 
equal profits, but all hundred will vary more or less 
in that respect. 

This, in turn, will force the necessity of classifying 
invention, not on the basis of the more or less intricate 
nature of the invention, nor on the basis of the more 
or less important want it fills, but purely from an indus- 
trial standpoint, or its earning capacity. 

Now, let us assume that about twenty-five out of 
the hundred industries, after having been financed and 
worked up to the point of self-sustenance, where they 
begin to earn a profit, that this profit in the course 
of one year would show a difference ranging from one 
hundred to fifteen hundred dollars in a manner that 
one might earn say only two thousand, but another 
twenty-five hundred, some of them more, and others 
again about thirty-five hundred, etc., and that the 
averasfe earning of the twenty-five industries would be, 
say, three thousand dollars annually, it is fair to argue 

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that if the spirit of co-operation should at all prevail, 
the ones that earn only two thousand should be in line 
to share profits at the rate of three thousand dollars 
average; the seventy-five thousand dollars earned by 
the combined twenty-five industries should be divided 
in equal shares, among divisions A, B, and C, in 
other words, one-third of the earning, twenty-five 
thousand dollars, returns to division A for having 
financed and brought to commercial self-sustenance 
and profit-making status the twenty-five industries. 

This amount may not cover the outlay of capital 
required to bring the twenty-five industries up to 
average earning power of three thousand dollars for 
the first year, but, considering that division A will 
receive one-third annually for the life-time of such 
patents, seventeen yeasr in the United States, and also 
that the earning capacity of the same twenty-five in- 
dustries may, in the course of years, increase vastly 
in average profit, it is plain that division A can have 
made no mistake in bringing forth those twenty-five 
inventions. 

One-third of the seventy-five thousand dollars 
earned, or twenty-five thousand dollars, go to the 
twenty-five inventors or patentees, besides of the pay 
drawn by them for their services during the year. 

The remaining one-third of the earnings goes to di- 
vision C, or two hundred and fifty workers, besides of 
their regular pay for work done during the year. 

Thus the co-operative principle will level the dif- 
frence in the earning powers of a given number of 
industries, where m.aximum and minimum profits are 
fixed, placing them in a designated class, so that, as 
in the case above outlined, the twenty-five inventors 
or patentees of division B will divide among them 

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equally the one-third of the profit, and likewise among 
the members of division C. 

In the working out of details, however, there will 
will be, in division C, a sHght difference in the sharing 
of profits, inasmuch as skilled labor will be entitled to 
a somewhat higher rate than unskilled. 

Let us say that another twenty-five industries out 
of the hundred, with fixed maximum and minimum 
profits result in an average of five thousand dollars a 
year, thus combined giving a profit of one hundred 
and twenty-five thousand dollars annually to again be 
divided in three among divisions A, B and C, it is 
obvious that the second twenty-five industries belong 
to class 2 of inventions, because of their higher average 
earning ability. 

The remaining fifty, out of the hundred, may earn 
an average of eight thousand dollars each, resulting 
in a total profit of four hundred thousand dollars 
annually, divided in the same manner, and this would 
seem to indicate that division A, wath a smaller mem- 
bership, would receive an unproportionately greater 
share than divisions B and C. 

But here it should be remembered that the dif- 
ference would not by far be as great as under exist- 
ing conditions is the case between the individual em- 
ployer, the isolated inventor, and the number of work- 
ers in a given plant or industry (always keeping the 
rule of average in mind), for when it is considered 
that it belongs by no means to the exceptions that a 
single multi-millionaire employer, having secured one 
or more patented inventions for a comparative **song," 
as it were, engaging labor at present established union 
rates, without any sharing of profits whatsoever, the 
difference, proportionately, under a trinity system as 

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here advocated, and that of individual private ex- 
ploitation, speaks for itself, but this is not all. 

Let it also be borne constantly in mind, that the 
inauguration of division A into active being will re- 
quire considerable capital in order to establish a rate 
of evolution not too slow^, i. e., capital adequate to 
establish initial industries by the dozen or scores at 
the very outset, so that in the course of one year, for 
example, new^ industries by the hundreds might be 
launched, which will continuously demand larger and 
larger capital, until the flow of profit eclipses that of 
the outlay. 

Instead of the first 100 classified Httle industries 
here assumed, the organization, we will say, has in 
the course of four years, put into operation 3,000 of 
that same class, i. e., of an average earning capacity 
of $3,000 annually, with an average working force 
of 1 men or women, having been financed by division 
**A" to the extent of an average outlay for each one 
of $750, in order to bring them to the self-sustaining 
point, allowing two months average time for that pur- 
pose in each case, the following interesting figures will 
arise : 

Total outlay (four years) of division **A,'* 
$2,250,000. Annual profit, $9,000,000, giving 
the 3,000 (patentees) in division "B" $3,000,000 
to divide among them, which equals $ 1 ,000 for each 
individual, while division **C" receives $3,000,000 
to be divided among the total force of workers, 30,- 
000, which equals $ I 00 to each worker. 

We have already mentioned a second and a third 
class, based on earning capacity, and anyone can com- 
pute the result of any given size factory or industry, 
so while engaged in figures, we will proceed more 

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aggressively, just for one additional example, and 
assume that we step over a number of minor classes 
and compare notes with a class existing already by 
the hundreds of thousands, such factories or industries 
ihat with a force of a couple of hundred workers are 
earning profits annually of from $300,000 to $400,- 
000 — not to speak of those that clear their half and 
whole million dollars with comparative small working 
force and ease. 

Let us merely assume that "The Trinity Asso- 
ciation" had advanced during the four years men- 
tioned to establish, also, say 1 ,000 industries of an 
earning capacity each of $75,000 annually, and say 
an average working force of 80, with an average out- 
lay by division A of $5,000 for each to reach the 
self-sustaining point, the result would be $75,000,- 
000 minus $5,000,000, with a clear profit of $70,- 
000,000 to be divided in three equal parts, giving 
to division C $23,333,333 (omitting fractions, or 
approximately $290 to each individual worker as 
share in earnings ; while division B, of 1 ,000 mem- 
bers, receive each $23,333, leaving for division A 
$23,333,333 to be distributed in conesponding 
shares to the various hundreds of members of that 
division, and for the acquirement of additional build- 
ings, land and facilities in general for the continua- 
tion of this process of co-operation. 

Inasm.uch as the difference between skilled labor 
engaged throughout the various classes of these indus- 
tries would be com.paratively slight, which means that, 
in numerous instances of the simplest classes of inven- 
tions, whose average earnings may be among the 
lowest, say, the $3,000 ones, might require just as 
high skill as would be required in many instances of 

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the highest earning capacities, it is proposed to let 
the co-operative spirit reign through the entire labor 
element, in such a manner that the share of profit 
coming to each of the various classes in division C 
be averaged in favor of all, i. e., from the $75,000 
class here made an example, dow^n through the inter- 
mediary classes to the $3,000 ones, which would 
result, in this instance of the $75,000 and the $3,000 
classes in an average share to each worker of $ 1 95 
annually (the difference in rate of profit share between 
skilled and unskilled labor not considered in this case). 

As already stated there may be a number of dif- 
ferent earning classes between the two extremes here 
under consideration, and the average of which would 
figure in the same manner as above, for the common 
good of all workers active. 

Having here considered a period of four years for 
the launching of the 4,000 inventions, it must be 
understood that a basis for computation, of course, 
must be had and that this period during which **The 
Trinity Association" is supposed to have been in- 
augurated cannot be literally taken as a full-earning 
period, for which reason, it may be assumed that, by 
degree, the 4,000 mostly small industries, had reached 
their average earning point at the expiration of three 
years, leaving the fourth year with the result as ex- 
pressed in the above figures. 

The author wishes it distinctly understood that the 
above argument concerning certain numbers of indus- 
tries, their earning capacities, the outlay by division 
A, and the time allowed for raising them respectively 
from their incipient states should be considered in no 
other way than merely suggestive as an assumed basis 
for initial operation, for, as a matter of fact, so short 

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a period as four years may not be sufficient to obtain 
the results as outlined, while, on the other hand, it 
may be more than enough and the results be even 
greater, all of which would largely depend upon the 
capital at the command of division A at the begin- 
ning, and the business skill of those at the helm of the 
movement. 

There is, however, a measure of good reasoning 
underlying those factors of time, outlays, profits, etc., 
as well as results in figures; inasmuch as comparisons 
have been drawn with existing individual enterprises, 
and a closer investigation would convince anyone that 
it is of most common occurrence that a person will 
start a **new" business with one or more of such novelty 
articles precisely as belonging to class 1 , with a '*few'* 
hundred dollars at his or her disposal and in the course 
of a few yeasr will have accumulated a comfortable 
fortune. 

It should here be remembered also that while $750 
is not very much with which to launch an enterprise 
with an average working force of 1 persons, that such 
an amount of money will go very far, nevertheless, to 
accomplish the result because scarcely any of them 
would need the 10 workers at once, but would, gen- 
erally, be launched and operated with 2 or 3 indi- 
viduals, and thus increase the force one by one in the 
rourse of two months, not to forget that money will 
be continuously returning and increasing during that 
period to aid in defraying the expenses until self- 
supporting. 

Another element of vital importance is this, that 
every worker from the humblest to the highest will 
have a personal incentive to give the organization the 

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best of his efforts for his or her own sake, especially, 
and for the common good of all. 

Here let it be recalled that one of the objects of 
this co-operation plan is to make the worker his own 
employer, for so far as this can be accomplished in 
conjunction with the entire ''Trinity principle." 

To further lucidate this great feature, prospective 
members of divisions B and C should be guaranteed 
by division A when legal arrangements are made for 
co-operation to the end that when a prospective enter- 
prise has become self-sustaining, the industry, to all 
practical purposes, shall belong to the management 
and workers of the same, except for certain necessary 
rights to be reserved by division A, such as will in- 
volve reports as to earning status, and other interests 
of division A to be protected, its share in the profits, 
etc. 

The same great individual incentive will penetrate 
not only one, but all three divisions, for not merely 
will workers become practically their own employers, 
but it is plain that employment will be permanent, with 
every conceivable chance for advancement, such as the 
unskilled becoming skilled laborers, while skilled ones 
will rise to foremanship and the latter become assistant 
superintendents, etc., etc., and through it all will pre- 
vail a spirit of security as, indeed, the organization at 
large should constitute in itself — a genuine life assur- 
ance protection, to which end the plan should have 
provisions in case of death of members, so that fam- 
ilies, widows, and children, shall not stand unpro- 
tected, but receive certain percentages, sufficient for 
maintenance, of the pay drawn and profit shared at 
the time of ' death, for the children till they have 

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reached maturity, and for the wife and mother while 
she Hves, 

Doubtless, in the mind of some readers will have 
arisen already the question of how it will be possible 
to secure new inventions by the thousands upon thou- 
sands for a co-operation on so gigantic a scale as here 
proposed. In answer to which the writer will refer 
to earlier pages in the volume where it has been 
shown that inventions by the myriads are constantly 
awaiting their opportunity for operation. 

It is dilated upon to quite an extent, that there is 
no city, town or village anywhere in the world where 
the devising mind is not constantly at work and inven- 
tion generated. Thus, hundreds of thousands of 
devices, contrivances of every imaginable description 
can undoubtedly be secured, provided the inventors 
or patentees can see their way straight and clear for 
the outlet of their products in a manner convincing 
enough to them that compensation, well-earned, will 
come to them without unnecessary loss of time, so 
soon as their ideas have properly materialized; not 
only that, but under this plan of co-operation, inven- 
tive work in general will have encouragement a hun- 
dred fold; in other words, there will actually be put 
a premium upon invention so that not only what exists 
about i!s already materialized can be brought into 
action, but the creative flow in the human brain will 
be tripled and continue to increase in genuine pro- 
ductiveness. Industry will receive new impetus, agri- 
culture in a fev/ yeasr after the inauguration of the 
association would have its efficiency of productiveness 
c.onbled ard tripled, and the world should rapidly 
rrow richer. 

The fact that, in the foregoing pages, inventions 

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Fig. 3. Inventor's plants in various cities where 
the ''Trinity Association" is supposed to have estab- 
lished branches, etc. 



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already patented have only been referred to does not 
mean that the unpatented ideas cannot also be put 
forth, though not so well in the earlier stages of **The 
Association," for it is obvious that economy will have 
to be practiced wherever possible, more so in the be- 
ginning than subsequently, and hence first for the class 
already under protection. 

It will be noted, otherwise, in the diagram, as also 
elsewhere referred to, that the system embraces what 
the originator has called **the inventor's plant,'* in 
diagram III, in Chicago, St. Louis, Charleston and 
New York, places where *'The Trinity Association" 
has, it is supposed, in the course of some years de- 
posited branches of the ** Mother Organization." 

These inventor's plants should be large laboratories, 
machine shops, etc., with every facility, including if 
necessary pecuniary aid, to the inventor of a new-born 
idea, not in a manner resembling charity, but strictly 
on a business basis, when the inventor may first sub- 
mit his ideas to the board of experts of division A, he 
receiving such guarantees and certificate from the latter 
as will fully protect him, even without a patent, until 
he or she shall be ready, also through division A, if 
preferred, to obtain the regular patent protection. 

TTie method involved in the protection of the un- 
protected is in itself simple enough and belongs in 
reality to details, and needs at the present no further 
comment. 

There are in the United States alone, according to 
statistics, at present nearly 400,000 patented inven- 
tions under operation, i. e., excluding enormous num- 
bers of expired patents that are still continuing long 
established, permanent, srreat and small industries in 
the hundreds of thousands, if not millions; also ex- 
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eluding the tremendous numbers of industries based 
more or less on ideas that have never been patented. 

So strong is the writer's conviction as to the cor- 
rectness of the underlying principle that he solemnly 
believes that in the course of from fifteen to twenty 
years, such a '^Trinity Association" could be running 
a world-wide industry having branches in every civil- 
ized country, operating hundreds of thousands if not 
millions of industries, engaging many millions of work- 
ing members, while at the same time having once and 
for all established open and lasting gateways for the 
systematic outlet of creative product. 

To take a final glance at our ** Trinity system" 
after it has been in operation for a period of, say, 
two decades and once more consider figures when, 
let us assume, half a million, more or less new indus- 
tries had thus been added to existing activity, in- 
volving that number of inventors or patentees, and 
fifty millions of workers, the following figures would 
arise before our bewildered eyes. 

For millions upon millions of industries have been 
founded by individuals and it is confidently repeated 
that what individuals can do well, accurate system 
and co-operation can do better. 



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ANNUAL RESULT. 



500.000 Industries. 




$75,000 Average earning. 




100 Average number 


of workers employed. 


500,000 




75,000 




$37,500,000,000, 


Total earnings. 


500,000 




100 





50,000,000, Total number of workers. 

500,000 Total inventors or patentees. 

A 1/3x37,500,000,000 $12,500,000,000 
B 1/3x37,500,000,000 $12,500,000,000 

12,500,000,000 



500,000 $25,000 Average to each inventor. 
C 1/3x37,500,000.000 
12,500.000,000 



50,000.000 $250 Average to each worker. 



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It will be seen that under such an organization 
there can scarcely be anything resembling competition, 
in the ordinary sense of the word; for capital would 
be steadily invested only in the new, leaving old 
established industries undisturbed — only by degrees 
would conditions change, in accordance with natural 
evolution. 

Attention is finally called to the fact that the author 
has endeavored to show, also, that clearly there exists, 
so far as method is concerned, a parallel between the 
invisible and the visible world. 

As set forth in Part I, there is first to be observed 
the unorganized, but creative electronic universe from 
which all things are derived; then the organizing 
process through matter, and the immortal soul as the 
result. 

The unorganized inventive element of human 
beings on earth from which all commercial values 
spring; capital as the necessary element for continual 
production; labor as the great essential reproducing 
class. 

In other words, the heavenly process, method and 
all, is projecting itself straight into our material world, 
there practically repeating itself. 

And, staggering as may seem the above great 
annual figures, it appears, at least not to the writer, 
so wonderful, after all, for what is it, if not the infinite 
source of wealth of our own Creator? 



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